1895 - A British physicist said that it was impossible to make a flying machine that was heavier than the air., 1916 - Charlie Chaplin didn't think the cinema's popularity would last, because audiences would want live performances on stage., 1903 - A bank president advised a customer not to invest in the Ford Motor Company because cars were just a temporary fashion, whereas horses would always be here., 1913 - Inventor Lee De Forest was accused of selling fake shares in his company because his idea was to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic and a US District Attorney thought the idea was ridiculous., 1926 - Lee De Forest himself said that it would never be possible to send a spaceship to the moon., 1946 - Movie producer Darryl Zanuck claimed that people would soon get bored of watching television., 1955 - The president of a vacuum cleaner company predicted that we would use nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners within ten years., 1968 - Business Week magazine thought it would be difficult for Japanese car makers to sell many cars in the USA., 1995 - The founder of the company 3Com (a digital electronics manufacturer) thought the internet would collapse in 1996., 2005 - Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube, was worried about his company's future as he said that 'There's just not that many videos I want to watch".

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