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| | by Paula Mitchell Bentley, Nov 15, 2008 | | Comments(16) Liked It: 9 |
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| | The more articles I put out there, the more I realize how much I like getting comments on my work. It lets you know what people are thinking, good or bad. They can offer inspiration or criticism to help you improve your work. But lately, I've been getting an awful lot of very weird comments. I hope this article doesn't encourage certain commenters. I just had to get this article idea off of my mind. |
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| | What? Are you mad to drill oil out of earth? These were the first comments Edwin Drake had to endure from his workers in 1859. They only knew that water can be drilled from earth, so the idea of drilling oil appeared funny for them. Now we can say that those workers were terribly wrong, but there are many incidents where the intellectuals themselves made mistakes in predicting the future. Let us see a list of such incidents where the predictions of future went unexpectedly wrong... |
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