"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
The purpose of this blog is to collect and record examples of the numerous predictions, forecasts, etc... that turned out to be hopelessly wrong.
Please feel free to submit any examples of bad forecasts, with additional evidence of the forecast error if possible, unless its wildly obvious like a prediction that 'the world will end in 1985'. Send any submissions to BadPredictions-at-gmail-dot-com.
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