Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.1002/9781119578048.ch13
M. Vigliotti, Haydn Jones
History is littered with predictions that have proved to be spectacularly wrong. In 1876, William Orton, President of Western Union said ‘This “telephone” has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication’, contemptuously dismissing Alexander Graham Bell’s new invention.
历史上充斥着被证明是大错特错的预言。1876年,西联汇款公司总裁威廉·奥顿(William Orton)轻蔑地对亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔(Alexander Graham Bell)的新发明不屑一顾,他说:“这种‘电话’有太多缺点,不能被认真考虑作为一种通信手段。”
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