"At the time video calling with your phone completely flopped because 3G couldn't support it. There was so much advertising about this thing that was meant to be huge but the tech really didn't work yet. But it did blow up later on with 4G, better phones, wifi in more public spaces."
"The Wii U"
"Lazer discs the size of records."
"Hat streaming service that lasted like two months. ‘Qubi’ or ‘Qupi’ I think?
Even bad timing aside (a mobile based streaming service at a time when no one could really leave their house) the marketing was just horrible. I saw ads for it for nearly a week before I realized it was a new video streaming service, and by that point was so annoyed by the ads untrusting everything I didn’t care at all, just out of spite. Also I mean it was just YouTube you have to pay for and got worse content."
"Amazon’s shopping buttons. They pushed really hard for those and I never saw the point."
Wrong on all counts.
They never said it was... just that the car blowing up was reminsent of the mental image of the Hendenburg. Plus, hydrogen provided upward momentum, meaning it is a source of power.
Wind power replacing fossil fuels
Gravity batteries
Global cooling
Global warming
"Unity"
Judging people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.
Along those lines - Blockbuster.
Wine Coolers, the White Claw of Generation X