The Earth like all good planets should, obeyed the laws of nature and went unquestioned by the sketch - 24 hours a day, 365 and a quarter days a year for a million years, without soul, without reason. Then Man came by, made pots out of its mud, cars out of buried metal and integrated chips out of sand. At every point along the line there was this grand ‘inertia’ - The conviction that things were already too good and could never get better. Technology and Obama have one common enemy – ‘The resistance to change’. That’s the reason it took us a millenium to achieve what could have been finished in two centuries.
More often than not, great people opposed technology claiming that they either thought it was unethical or did not believe in it. The true reason remains hidden – “They never really understood its strength but were too proud to admit.” Here’s a list of great people who were proved wrong for good.
• “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
— Ken Olson
• “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
— Lord Kelvin
• “There will never be a bigger plane built.”
— A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people maximum.
• “The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” — Ernest Rutherford
• “How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte on Robert Fulton’s steamboat
• “Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”
— Thomas Edison
• “[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
— Darryl Zanuck, movie producer
Imagine a world with all these predictions come true. The difference is the power of the human mind and the gifts it offers. It takes more than power and fame to stop science from gaining her rightful position.
“An invasion can be stopped but not an idea whose time has come” -Victor Hugo
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