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by pazimzadeh 1517 days ago
An example of this:

Andy Grove in 1992: "The idea of a wireless personal communicator in every pocket is "a pipe dream driven by greed."

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This is a truly weird claim to have made at least 85 years after the idea entered the public sphere and at least 19 years after a phone that was intended to be carried by a person not a car was demoed by Motorola.

Did he also poopoo the idea of a public internet and wait until the 80s to do so?