In the early 1800s, when it was announced that railroad trains might go as fast as 30 miles per hour, some expert announced that the air pressure at such a speed would crush a man's lungs.
As recently as the 1970s it was believed that personal home computers were just a dream.
Before he died in 1948, Orville Wright was photographed sitting in the cockpit of a Lockeed 749 Constellation airliner.
Aircraft? 106 years old. Jet Aircraft? 70 years old. Actual jet fighters? 66 years old. Jet airliners? 58 years old. Manned space flight? 48 years old.
Who knows what the next 50 years will bring? Technology development accelerates at a compound rate, and things are being created now that my dad never dreamed of. Things that I never dreamed of.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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