7 Ultimate Tech Prediction Failures

By siliconindia  |  Thursday, 12 April 2012, 10:53 Hrs

Year 1878

Thomas Edison demonstrated the telephone connection between New Jersey and Philadelphia and the first telephone exchange was setup in New Haven, Connecticut.

Prediction

A well known Welsh Electrical engineer and inventor William Preece declared, “Americans need telephone. We don’t. We have plenty of messenger boys.”

 

Present Scenario

Quiet contrarily, messenger boys do not exist anymore and the telephonic network in Europe is one of the most sophisticated. Above 82% of the population in UK used telephone and internet in 2011.

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