"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876.
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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