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Still the best graduation I was ever at had Marty Cooper as the speaker. @calestous @cdixon
Our President asked all in the audience to turn on their cell phones in his honor. It was so funny when 1 would ring. @calestous @cdixon
“@calestous: .@cdixon on cell phones pic.twitter.com/EQ95cOc22B” Good old McKinsey.
.@calestous @cdixon Ken Olsen, DEC founder/minicomputer inventor, said would be no market for personal computers. Who'd want one?
@calestous @cdixon One key broken assumption in the McKinsey study: no one would ever use a mobile phone if a landline phone was available.
@calestous @cdixon Seeds didn't change the desire of people to be nomadic argues Craig McCaw. Mobile communication fits human nature.
@calestous @pmarca @cdixon 1980s was pre-history. It'll be more interesting to know who advised British Telecom to sell off O2 in 2005.
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He got the battery part correctly.
@calestous @pmarca @cdixon would also love to know how much that research cost
@calestous @cdixon they were told by the client that phones would never be smaller than a briefcase. Garbage in, garbage out.
@calestous @ShashiTharoor @cdixon beware of the 'experts'. They are chronic pessimists.
.@calestous @tavleen_singh @cdixon In early 50's somebody advised Strick Line, London, not to buy oil tankers as there was no future in oil.
.@calestous @tavleen_singh @cdixon In 1872, somebody predicted that world will run out of coal soon & Industrial revolution grind to a halt.
@calestous @ShashiTharoor @cdixon There is no 100% right in predictions whoever may be predictor.
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