Top 10 Famously Bad Predictions Experts Didn’t Actually Make

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We all enjoy pointing fingers at experts when they make mistakes. Popular sites love to publish hack lists of embarrassingly wrong predictions by famous people, complete with snappy image macros and a dump truck full of condescension .?It?s understandable: seeing someone successful make obvious errors of judgment helps us feel better about our own bloopers.

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10. “We Can Close the Books on Infectious Diseases.”
9. “This ‘Telephone’ Has Too Many Shortcomings to be Seriously Considered as a Means of Communication.”
8. “Computers in the Future May Weigh No More than 1.5 Tons.”
7. “Fooling Around with Alternating Current is Just a Waste of Time. Nobody will Use It, Ever.”
6. “I Think There is a World Market for Maybe Five Computers.”
5. “There is Nothing New to be Discovered in Physics Now. All That Remains is More and More Precise Measurement.”
4. “There is No Reason for Any Individual to Have a Computer in His Home.”
3. ?Who the Hell Wants to Hear Actors Talk??
2. “640K Ought to be Enough for Everybody.”
1. “Everything that Can be Invented has Been Invented.”

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http://books.google.com/books?id=Y71w...
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/...
http://books.google.com/books?id=heqz...
http://www.computerworld.com/s/articl...
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https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkas:...
https://libreshot.com/wp-content/uplo...
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