trust the experts; they never make Bad Predictions... right? ;D

[Darren Dirt]

Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

From the well-known "Everything that can be invented has been invented." (Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899) or "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?" (Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter's call for investment in the radio in 1921) to the not-making-this-up "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" (H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927) or "Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress." (Sir William Siemens, on Edison's light bulb, 1880)... There's like a hundred more of 'em on this page (including some user contributions in the comments):


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Now if you'll excuse me, I have an item "mischievous to the true progress of science" to change...