Now that the Seahawks are 9-5 and have clinched a playoff berth, let’s look back at some of the assumptions and predictions people made when they had a losing record.
In 1889, Thomas Edison said fooling around with alternating current was a waste of time.
In 1932, Albert Einstein said nuclear energy would never be attainable.
And in 1995, Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet, said the Internet would “catastrophically collapse” by the following year.
In other words — fret not. Smarter people than us have gotten it wrong.
Still, I can’t help but look back at some of the assumptions and predictions made about the Seahawks when they were 0-2, 2-4, or 4-5 this season.