30 Dumb Inventions – (Life – May 20, 2011)<\/a>
\nThe 20th century saw many remarkable technological innovations. The automobile revolutionized the way people live and work, the internet changed the way people think about information, and the U.S. put a man on the moon. But some technological advances from the earlier part of the 20th century didn’t exactly stand the test of time. Here are a few inventions that are “history” – fortunately!<\/p>\n
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.\u00a0<\/i>– Sydney J. Harris<\/p>\n
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