Entrepreneurs Have Been Proving Experts Wrong Forever

A list of the very worst predictions by the very smartest people.

by Ilya Pestov
July 22, 2017

There’s a long-standing tradition among scientists, engineers, and industrialists. Every new year, they make predictions about a future.

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Well, technology has proven to be extraordinarily slippery over the past century. Despite the vast information that industry insiders have had at their fingertips, they’ve made some pretty terrible forecasts over the years.

The predictions that history remembers most are those that demonstrate spectacular misjudgment, misunderstanding, overly optimistic hyperbole, self-delusion, or good old-fashion wishful thinking.