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Have you checked out Ode Magazine online yet? Ode is one of the world’s great inspiring reads for ‘intelligent optimists’ – and the news is available in hard copy too.  Editor Jurriaan Kamp recently wrote a brilliant blog called, as the title of this blog suggets ‘the best is yet to come’. In his latest good news lament, he says:

“Humanity has a lifetime subscription to defeatism. Every era has had its own preachers of doom and impending doom scenarios. Around 1880, a group of entrepreneurs and scientists gathered in Paris to discuss the future. The question was what the French capital would look like in 50 years. The conclusion was dark: With continued growth of the population and the economy, these French visionaries foresaw that the Parisian avenues would be buried under several feet of horse manure. A dozen years later at the Chicago World Fair of 1893, visitors were asked which invention would define the coming new century. Nobody answered, “the car.” But in 1903, Henry Ford began building his car plant and in 1908 he launched the Model T. And Paris has never experienced the horrific horse manure scenario.”

He also unburied some FANTASTIC quotes that you have got to check out, here are a few:

“The abdomen, the chest and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.” —Sir John Eric Ericson, Surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1873

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” —Lord Kelvin, mathematician and physicist, 1895

“It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers.” —American Railroad Congress, 1913

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” —H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927

“There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth’s gravity.” —Forest Ray Moulton, astronomer, 1932

“There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” —Albert Einstein, 1932

“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” —Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946

“The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most.” —IBM to the eventual founders of Xerox, 1959

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” —Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977″

Read more of this fantastic blog here.

Today’s rating: 9/10

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