30 Future Predictions That Flopped in Epic Fashion
When predicting the future goes wrong and you're left looking like a fool, with your pants on the ground.
Published 1 year ago in Funny
People have been attempting to predict the future forever. Occasionally, people get lucky or close to an accurate prediction, but more often than not people's predictions miss it by a country mile.
So get ready to have a few laughs and check out this batch of people that show the hilarious results when predicting the future goes wrong and you're left looking like a fool, with your pants on the ground.
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"In 1988, the Los Angeles Times magazine published a special issue predicting what life would be like in 25 years’ time. In some ways, they missed the mark completely: Cities mandate that business stagger shifts, to ease the burden on commuting and city services. Barcodes on our money to avoid corruption and crime and keep track of every dollar bill and who it belongs to. Multiple families cram into single-home structures, because there's no housing. The opposite of the housing bubble that floods markets with too many empty homes."
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"Clifford Stoll being sceptical about online shopping, which is basically how everyone buys stuff now: "We’re promised instant catalogue shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.""
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"In 1993, internet expert John Allen told CBC that he believed that our own moral code and internal rules would stop people from doing horrible things online. "There's not a lot of cursing, or swearing. One would think if you're anonymous you could do anything you want, but people in a group have their own sense of community and what we can do.""
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“I don’t believe that phone books, newspapers, magazines, or corner video stores will disappear as computer networks spread. Nor do I think that my telephone will merge with my computer, to become some sort of information appliance.” “Video-on-demand, that killer application of communications, will remain a dream.” - Clifford Stoll
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"In the September 4, 1998, edition of the Amarillo Daily News in Texas, writer Amy Tao made a few predictions about what life may look like in 20 years—most importantly stating that human cloning will be commonplace. "Cloning will be a big thing. Despite moral activist protests, clones of animals and human beings walk the earth. Don't feel like going to school? Send your clone! What if your dog dies suddenly? Just take out the clone of him!" she writes."
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"Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet’s continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet, which only just recently got this section here in InfoWorld, will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." - Robert Metcalfe
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