15 Impossibly Silly Predictions (Made By Serious People)

Many future predictions have been made throughout history by many people, some of which have proven to be eerily accurate. A French physician named Nostradamus, is among the most famous 'seers,' foreseeing historical events like the French Revolution, all these World Wars, and perhaps even Princess Diana's death.

It's hard to believe we're already in the twenty-first century. While we've seen some incredible technical advancements, such as artificial intelligence and phones which unlock automatically by scanning our faces, we're still not living in the real world of flying cars and robotic butlers (unless you count roombas) that individuals once dreamed we'd be living in by now. Indeed, projections about the futuristic as well as revolutionary developments we'd experience in this distant-sounding year were fairly lofty decades ago. Do you need a good laugh? 

We all call our own shots now and again, but few people are in a position to be as profoundly, jaw-droppingly incorrect as these people. Here are the results

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TV won't last 6 months. 2OTH CENTURY FOX CRACKED COM Studio exec Darryl Zanuck predicted that people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box

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Michael Jordan won't carry this franchise. CHICAGO BULLS GM TLLS CRACKED.COM General Manager Rod Thorn was almost apologetic that there was no one tal

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Smoking's probably fine. NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE CRACKED COM W.C. Heuper, director of the institute's Environmental Cancer Section, was pretty darn

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Audiences don't want tO hear actors. A WARNER BRO. H.M. Warner thought silent movies were the height of cinema: Who the hell wants to hear actors tal

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Movies are a fad. CHARLIE CHAPLIN CRACKED COM Before becoming a silent film star, Chaplin declared what audiences want to see is flesh and blood on t

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The telephone has no legs. WESTERN UNION CRACKED COM In an internal memo, employees were told that the telephone shouldn't be 'seriously considered a

Source: Marketing Communications: An Integrated Approach

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Brick-and-mortar stores have nothing to worry about. TIME MAGAZINE CRACKED.COM Their 1966 prediction that remote shopping will flop was based on the

Source: Time

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The Beatles have no future in showbiz. DECCA RECORDS An impressively shortsighted record exec expounded that four-piece groups with guitars, particul

Source: DailyMail

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Nothing bad will happen to the stock market. IRVING FISHER CRACKED.GOM 3 days before the stock market crash, an American economist declared that stock

Source: Federal Reserve History

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We'll go full Flintstones. Tb Find Some Use For Every Wild Animal Man's Steadily Increasing Need for More Space Will Eventually Force Untamed Beasts t

26 Really Inaccurate Predictions About The Future

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We'll all get tired of the internet. ROBERT METCALFE The guy who co-invented Ethernet predicted the internet would go supernova, and in 1996 will cat

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Rail commuters will suffocate. DIONYSIUS LARDNER CRACKED COM The professor at University College, London, was convinced that high-speed trains were si

26 Really Inaccurate Predictions About The Future

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There's simply no demand for YouTube. YOUTUBE COFOUNDER Cofounder and CTO Steve Chen once said there's just not that many videos I want to watch. St

Source: Telegraph