26 Predictions About The Future (That Were Really Inaccurate)

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The thing about dealing with predicting the future is that, at some point, the future happens and then we get to look back at everyone who was laughably wrong. We asked our readers to go digging through the annals of time to see what some of the greatest minds from the past saw in the future, and gave $200 to the worst prediction ...

Entry by maluba

Where a calculator like ENIAC today is equipped with 000 vacuum! tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1.000 vacuum tubes an

Entry by mkad

Within ten years porterhouse steak will cost US $1 a pound , and then, peering still more deeply into the dismal future, he se

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