“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

It may sound ridiculous now, but the prediction was actually true for about ten years after it was made. Almost every forecaster would settle for a ten year limit on the testing of their forecasts. Of course, by the 1980s and the advent of the PC, such a statement looked plain daft.

"Intelligent" and "less intelligent" queries and the results in Google

It's time for some more humour.

You know how, when you start to type your query in on the google search box, the site comes with auto-fill suggestions?
Also, you will know that there are intelligent ways of asking questions and less intelligent ways of asking questions: of course you know that - you lot are smart intelligent Master's students :-)

Now, you can have fun with the auto-fill suggestion box, using less and more sophisticated search terms. The results can be hilarious.

See this site for some ideas.

Thanks to one of my favourite blog authors, Stan, at http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/ for inspiring this post.

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