The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley · 17 May 2010 · 462pp · 150,129 words
horse manure in the streets of London by 1950. So was IBM’s founder Thomas Watson when he said in 1943 that there was a world market for five computers, and Ken Olson, the founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, when he said in 1977: ‘There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their