Personal computer (mid-1970s): Dismissed as a hobbyist toy. Established firms (e.g., HP, Atari) declined to back Apple’s prototype.
Laser (1960): Described by its own researchers as “a solution looking for a problem.” It is now foundational to fiber optics, surgery, barcode scanning, and manufacturing.
Transistor (1947): Announcement received minimal press coverage. The New York Times reportedly placed it in a short radio-news item.
Television (1920s-30s): Widely judged impractical or a passing novelty. In 1946, a major film executive predicted it would not hold an audience after the first months.
all of these were considered useless when invented, guess I don't even need to explain how much they are being used today, right?
it's not just because it's Elon Musk that you guys have to blindly hate it, you can simply appreciate something cool just because... it's cool.
edit: well based on the downvotes you guys DO need to hate it just because of Musk, guess childish people will keep on hating then.
Elon has spent the past 20 years showcasing fake products. Amphibious trucks, autonomous android workers, fleets of electric semitrailers, solar powered Teslas, fully automated factories, hyperloops, countless Twitter features he never even pretended to actually make - he does this every year
He's also spent the past year touting the impossible as possible and did get a fair few of it correct, resuble rocket, no diffs the entire industry without breaking a sweat, were the first to get actual decent electric cars to the market, super charger network, good satellite internet. You cherry pick as much as the people who hype him up. There's up and downs
It’s true he funded some successful projects like reusable rockets and good satellite internet (which he recently used for war crimes) but who ever said those things were impossible? They are not far fetched or impossible at all.
"Whoever said those things were impossible"? Sorry man but like him or not the reusable rockets had plenty of people saying it was impossible. Even the Teslas were doubted because the network of charging stations didn't exist.
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u/D3SK3R 18h ago edited 18h ago
Personal computer (mid-1970s): Dismissed as a hobbyist toy. Established firms (e.g., HP, Atari) declined to back Apple’s prototype.
Laser (1960): Described by its own researchers as “a solution looking for a problem.” It is now foundational to fiber optics, surgery, barcode scanning, and manufacturing.
Transistor (1947): Announcement received minimal press coverage. The New York Times reportedly placed it in a short radio-news item.
Television (1920s-30s): Widely judged impractical or a passing novelty. In 1946, a major film executive predicted it would not hold an audience after the first months.
all of these were considered useless when invented, guess I don't even need to explain how much they are being used today, right?
it's not just because it's Elon Musk that you guys have to blindly hate it, you can simply appreciate something cool just because... it's cool.
edit: well based on the downvotes you guys DO need to hate it just because of Musk, guess childish people will keep on hating then.