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by Err_Eek 2623 days ago
Any examples?
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Personal computers, mobile phones, genome sequencing, MOOCs, email, the telegraph, phones, the railway.

There are examples where it was just straight up overestimated as well of course, like AirPower in warfare but air travel was definitely under estimated too. A plane is a flying bus and people travel across a continent for a weekend trip.

Yeah the first web boom then bust... everyone thought it was over with no way to make money.