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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by tialaramex on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:37PM (#35222706)
The Bill Gates quote at the end is unsourced. In the unlikely event Gates ever actually said or wrote that, somebody would have a citation.
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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by OJFord on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:32PM (#35223886)
He denies it himself, but a plausible explanation given here is that he perhaps meant '~ in the lifetime of this system': https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2863/did-bill-g...

(It goes back to 1985 apparently, so does seem unlikely it came from nowhere, since it wouldn't have seemed so ridiculous then.)

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