The only reality is that people still care about TV

FAMOUSLY wrong pronouncements from the past: “The automobile is only a novelty” — a bank president in 1903 advising against investing in the Ford Motor Company.

“Four-piece groups with guitars particularly are finished” — a recording company executive in 1962, turning down The Beatles.

“The director of the MIT Media Lab predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the internet. Uh, sure” — a Newsweek contributor in 1995, dismissing the notion that e-commerce would ever catch on.