truthseeker
Registered User
- Messages
- 2,577
Bookmark [broken link removed] for 11 years down the road.
In that case it is better to have a stopped clock?A stopped watch is correct two times a day.
With all the posts on aam you are always going to find ones that were spot on , and loads that were a mile off.
edit: speaking of predictions, Alan Turing predicted in 1950 that by the end of the 20th century computers would have a billion words of memory. A standard word is four bytes, so he predicted 4 billion bytes or roughly 4 gigabytes. ( http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Moore%27s_Law#encyclopedia ). That seems a remarkably accurate prediction to me!
edit: speaking of predictions, Alan Turing predicted in 1950 that by the end of the 20th century computers would have a billion words of memory. A standard word is four bytes, so he predicted 4 billion bytes or roughly 4 gigabytes. ( http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Moore's_Law#encyclopedia ). That seems a remarkably accurate prediction to me!
Other than the one I gave?Do you have a source for that quote ?
Just roaming around some old threads there, got me thinking that AAM is wonderful to use in a retrospective sense, go back and look at old predictions and the reasons behind them, did they come true etc...
Heres one from before its time:
http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showpost.php?p=57466&postcount=8
Are prices more than 20% below 2005 levels?Heres another classic:
http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showpost.php?p=46673&postcount=6
Are prices more than 20% below 2005 levels?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?