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"Funny... no one saw it that way back then" ... Hardly!...

Only that history has a way of remembering points of views that were spectacularly wrong (or right)... doesn't point to the view of the majority of intelligentsia at the time. An example;

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

Following your argument, one would be led to believe that Mr. Watson's view was the prevalent view at the time (perhaps it was, among the uneducated)... But we all know that NOT to be the case among other people in the industry at the time.

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  • "Funny... no one saw it that way back then" ... Hardly!... - Steve Cortez 05:09:36 07/01/07 (0)
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