Bad Predictions (26 pics)

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These people got it completely wrong.

Variety magazine, 1955

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Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On the Origin of Species, 1859

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Economist Irving Fisher in October 1929, three days before the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression

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A Decca Records executive to the band's manager, Brian Epstein, following an audition in 1962. He continued: "We don't like your boys' sound. Groups are out. Four-piece groups with guitars, particularly, are finished."

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Time magazine, 1968

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John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of the Future, 1936

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Margaret Thatcher, Oct. 26, 1969

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Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of radio, writing in Technical World magazine, October 1912

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Kaiser Wilhelm II to German troops at the outset of World War One, August 1914

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Surgeon General of the United States William H. Stewart, speaking to the U.S. Congress in 1969

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Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861

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Dr. Dionysys Larder, science writer and academic, in 1828

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Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923

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New York Times, 1936

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Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, in InfoWorld magazine, December 1995

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The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company, 1903

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William Orton, president of Western Union, in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the company his invention

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Charlie Chaplin in 1916, two years into his big-screen acting career. The rest of the quote: "It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage."

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An aide to British military commander Field Marshal Haig wrote this in a report following a tank demonstration, 1916

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Thomas Edison, 1889. The lightbulb inventor insisted his own direct current (DC) system was superior to competitor George Westinghouse's AC power, and took every opportunity to discredit alternating current

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Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948

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Byte magazine editor Edmund DeJesus, 1998

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Alan Sugar, 2005

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Popular Mechanics, 1949

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Sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling in The New York Times, 2007

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007

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№1 Author: No1 (6 May 2013 03:03) Total user comments: 1621

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#20 is incorrect. It was not Westinghouse's AC, it was Nikola Tesla's. Tesla built the generators for Westinghouse's installations.

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№2 Author: kryptor (6 May 2013 03:51) Total user comments: 4840

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10,000 Manics': MTV UnPlugged is one of my most cherished CD's.
It's also one of the first I ever bought. That was back when DAT came out and was going to replace Compact disc as a primary media format.

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№3 Author: m0ck0 (6 May 2013 04:09) Total user comments: 149

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#25 Is ok

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№4 Author: capt.huffnpuff (6 May 2013 07:49) Total user comments: 2822

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#20 Nokola Tesla, Edison's rival, did the basic work and held the basic patents for AC and Westinghouse only licensed them from Tesla. Virtually everything in the world that runs on electricity depends on AC - including your computers and cell phones that use DC but need to be charged with an AC Adapter. Tesla's patents for radio were eventually over Marconi's in a Supreme court case. Tesla is basically responsible for the electric world as we know it.

#24 is literally true. Isn't your PC less than 1.5 tons?

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№5 Author: fairmania (6 May 2013 11:55) Total user comments: 1460

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I agree, number 24 is true. A little ambitious, but true!

Number 26 probably needed less heed paid to it too, as poor old Steve isn't the sharpest knife in the box.....

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№6 Author: Lu (6 May 2013 19:27) Total user comments: 15132