Each represents an example of horrendous judgment. Like Einstein’s teacher lamenting to his father that little Albert would never amount to anything. Western Union saying that the telephone had no value. A professor of military strategy commenting on the airplane, a new invention, declaring that it was useless for military applications. Or the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicting a worldwide market of only five computers.” Paige smiled. “The kids really like this last one,” she noted, “since many of them have five computers in their own home.”
