Bad Opinions

[afroannnie]

"He’s passé. Nobody cares about Mickey anymore… I think we should phase him out."

—Roy Disney on his brother Walt’s creation Mickey Rat, 1937

HEY!!!!!! I take exception to this. My GF tells me she still cares about me. that still counts right?

Don't worry..Roy said this...not Walt. I mean who cares about Roy? He's so passé.

[afroannnie]

I can't imagine how this would ever work logistically...but I like the idea of flying my house and kitties wherever I want and visit friends

"Houses will be able to fly [by 2000]… The time may come when whole communities may migrate south in the winter, or move to new lands whenever they feel the need for a change of scenery."

—Futurist Arthur C. Clarke, Vogue, 1966

[of.the.girl]

"Men will never fly, because flying is reserved for angels."

Episcopalian Bishop Milton Wright, father of the Wright Brothers, date unknown

[dcfaithful]

“Home taping is killing music.”

—A campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) targeting people who used cassette recorders to tape songs off the radio, 1980

To some degree this might be accurate.

Home recording efforts aren't "killing" music, but they're definitely changing it. In the eyes of big-wig record companies, for the worse.

[Who Princess]

“And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam.”

—Newsweek, forecasting holiday trends for the late 1960s

[afroannnie]

“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and, in 1996, catastrophically collapse.”

—Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

[afroannnie]

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

—Ken Olson, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

[Claireack]

Now you have me clicking away..

“Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners.”

—Ladies’ Home Journal, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” 1900

I want one!

[stargirl69]

“Home taping is killing music.”

—A campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) targeting people who used cassette recorders to tape songs off the radio, 1980

To some degree this might be accurate.

Home recording efforts aren't "killing" music, but they're definitely changing it. In the eyes of big-wig record companies, for the worse.

I remember that campaign well it was a very dramatic film vinyl being bludgeoned

[afroannnie]

Now you have me clicking away..

“Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners.”

—Ladies’ Home Journal, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” 1900

I want one!

They would be great for making strawberry shortcake