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A Few Predictions That Were Totally Off-Base (26 Pics)

Variety magazine, 1955 Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On the Origin of Species, 1859 Economist Irving Fisher in October 1...

Variety magazine, 1955
Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On the Origin of Species, 1859

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




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."




Time magazine, 1968




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




Margaret Thatcher, Oct. 26, 1969




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




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




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




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




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




Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923




New York Times, 1936




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




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




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




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.




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




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




Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948




Byte magazine editor Edmund DeJesus, 1998




Alan Sugar, 2005




Popular Mechanics, 1949




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



Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007

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