Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future.

[Hamma]

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�Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years.� -� Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955.

[Mag-Mower]

That list was great. Here are 2 of my favourite points:

# ***171;Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.***187;
Irving Fisher, economics professor at Yale University, 1929.


# ***171;It will be gone by June.***187;
Variety, passing judgement on rock 'n roll in 1955.

[Geist]

These are my 2 favorites:
�Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.�
Popular Mechanics, March 1949.

We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.� -***8211; U.S. postmaster general Arthur Summerfield, in 1959.

[Hamma]

[Kyonye]

�Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES.�
George Bush, 1988.



�The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn�t mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.�
Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, 1942.

- I just enjoy this one


�Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?�
H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927.

[Geist]