Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

"Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years." (Alex Lewyt, president of a vacuum cleaner company in 1955.)

"We stand on the threshold of rocket mail." (U.S. postmaster general Arthur Summerfield, in 1959.)

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" (Last words of Gen. John Sedgwick, 1864.)

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