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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer said, “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” Ballmer saw cell phones as functional tools in the business world, which caused him to bet on the failure of the iPhone. Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, wagered that the iPhone would become…

Recently, some 20,000 people were evacuated from an area of Cologne, Germany, while authorities removed a 1-ton bomb that had been discovered during construction work. The bomb was leftover from the bombing of Germany by the allies during WWII. Just a few years earlier another 20,000 people in Dortmund…

Larry David was a co-creator of the television sitcom, Seinfeld. The success of that show has made David a multimillionaire. His success however didn’t stop his mother from worrying. Larry David said his mother would ask him, even after Seinfeld was the No. 1 show on Television, “Are they going to keep…

By John Brandon Published July 15, 2013 FoxNews.com Physical crimes that won’t be possible in 2025 Physical crimes that won’t be possible in 2025 Crime is evolving. 100 years ago, the best way to line your coffers was to rob a train. Bank robberies became a lucrative endeavor as well, yielding about…

Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Most patent attorneys have also heard that the quote is apocryphal. In his 1989 article, Samuel Sass traced the quote back to 1981…

Climate researchers, looking over ten years of data from a NASA spacecraft, say they have evidence the sky is falling. The tops of clouds decreased by an average of one percent between March 2000 and February 2010. The global average decreased by a distance of 100 to 130 feet. The most surprising factor…

People use a lot of different methods to predict the outcome of events like the Super Bowl. Some use a logical approach, examining season records, reviewing games, and talking with friends. Others rely on less convention methods, such as taking advice from a camel. Princess the camel lives at New Jersey’s…

The day before Super Bowl XLVI, many New York residents were wondering, what the New York Giants knew that no one else did. For a short time on Saturday, February 4th, 2012, the New York Giants site contained the message that the Giant were the Super Bowl Champions. Ads on the page offered shoppers the…

2045, The Year Man Becomes Immortal shouts the cover of Time magazine! Of course that is a couple thousand years late. Jesus already promised that those who believe in Him will never die. The Time article is about the Singularity movement. The Singularity moment is when computer intelligence passes human…

According to John Micklethwait, Politics is taking an active role on the two levels of human society. One level the power of presidents, kings, and would-be dictator leaders. Another level is the ideological conflicts. These conflicts between left wing and right wing, liberalism and autocracy, have been…

George Steinbrenner was once quoted saying “I will never have a heart attack, I give them” Sadly, George’s life ended due to cardiac arrest on July 11th 2010 -- http://blog.syracuse.com/sports/2010/07/i_will_never_have_a_heart_atta.html ; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dexter-rogers/george-steinbrenner-dies_b_645891.html…

PROPHETS For 20 years, from 1985 until 2005, Philip Tetlock, a University of California psychologist, kept track of the accuracy of hundreds of so-called experts on world affairs. He reported his findings in a book, Expert Political Judgment: How good is it? How can we know? (Princeton University Press…

Each year a private college in Beloit, Wisconsin releases a snapshot of the mindset of that year’s entering freshman class. The Beliot College Mindset List is designed to help professors develop lesson plans that are more meaningful to students and open doors to greater understanding. In the Fall of…

In Star Trek, The City on the Edge of Forever, Captain Kirk and Commander Spock are traveling through time and end up in 1930 America. There Kirk saves a beautiful young lady from sure death when he pushes her out of the path of an oncoming car. Soon, however, the two do-gooders learn that may not have…

Eric Applebaum, the Hat Collector: All stories, even the ones we love, must eventually come to an end and when they do, it's only an opportunity for another story to begin.

VISION In Leading Change, John Kotter writes, “Vision refers to a picture of the future with some implicit or explicit commentary on why people should strive to create that future.” -- Leading Change, p. 68 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Tony Lee Proverbs 29:18a (KJV) “Where there is no vision, the…

Mr. Edward Magorium: We must face tomorrow, whatever it may hold, with determination, joy and bravery

Before the Hollywood icon, Dennis Hopper died; he made a series of TV commercials for Ameriprize Financial, aimed specifically at Baby Boomers. One commercial begins with Hopper standing at a crossroads and saying, “So here you are, a little confused. Did you think the road to retirement was an expressway?…

"We are more sensitive because we are more concerned about our past than we are about our future." -Creflo Dollar

FUTURE What if you looked into the future and caught a glimpse of yourself like you would be then? This is the premise of the television drama, Flash Forward. The whole world passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds during which they see themselves exactly seven months into the future. --World, October…

Each April, general managers and coaches of the National Football League go to the yearly draft in hopes of finding the NFL’s next superstar player. Teams dream of finding the player to turn their fortune around. However, many of these “can’t miss” players will become part of a long list of multi-million…

The Second Coming As a young boy, I remember thinking, when the year 2000 rolls around, I'll be an old man-I'll be 40! Back then the new millennium seemed like the bright stars on a clear night, distant and unreachable. Well, I'm an old man of 40 now, and I've got to be honest with you, the year 2000…

To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. .Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this…

A new study suggests that optimists live longer than pessimists do. The study of almost 100,000 women found that optimists—women who expected that good things, not bad, would happen—were 30% less likely to die of heart disease during the course of the study than pessimists. Trusting women were 23% less…

FUTURE Along a busy street in Pico Rivera (Los Angeles Area) CA, is a boarded up restaurant with a sign that says, "One of Ten Best Restaurants —Press Enterprise, 1990." How can a restaurant be one of the top ten in 1990 and boarded up in 2000? Though I don't know the particulars in this case, I do know…