Top 87 bad predictions about the future

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2Spare has a list of the top 87 bad predictions. Here are a few of my favorites:

  • “It will be gone by June”
    Variety, passing judgement on rock ‘n roll in 1955.
  • “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad”
    The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903.
  • “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home”
    Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.
  • “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys”
    Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878
  • “Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night”
    Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.
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