The reason rotten meat sells every market day is that fools will always come to the market. - Igbo Proverb.
These guys should take information, hang some conspiracy around it, and push it to the internet. Perhaps, the YouTube channel which they use is also part of the conspiracy. Throughout history, humanity has been confronted with these characters. The Jewish leadership also accused Jesus of being possessed by the devil.
In 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank warned Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, to protect his money. “The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad,” he advised. If you’ve ever been stuck trying to get out of a parking lot after a sporting event, you may have wished he’d gotten this one right.
In 1904, the New York Times reported on a debate in Paris between a brain specialist and a physician about the dangers of driving automobiles at high speeds, because the brain can’t keep up. “It remains to be proved how fast the brain is capable of traveling,” reads the article. “If it cannot acquire an eight-mile per hour speed, then an auto running at the rate of 80 miles per hour is running without the guidance of the brain, and the many disastrous results are not to be marveled at.”
Electricity will flicker out of fashion: So said Junius Morgan to his son J.P. Morgan. J.P. had hired Thomas Edison to wire up his mansion, making it the first private residence in New York to have electric lighting. Luckily for his bank account, J.P. Morgan didn’t listen to his dad and invested heavily in Edison, eventually financing General Electric.
In 1876, the president of Western Union, William Orton, dismissed phones as a “toy” when Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell him the patent for $100,000. According to True West magazine, Orton wrote an internal memo stating: “The idea is idiotic on the face of it. Furthermore, why would any person want to use this ungainly and impractical device when he can send a messenger to the telegraph office and have a clear written message sent to any large city in the United States?”
Dr. EK Gwuru writes from Nkolo Ikembe.
