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getting it wrong.
ever since ancient times experts have been predicting the future. if you were frightened that the end of the world was coming in the year 2000, you needn't have worried: the sameprediction was made in the years AD 500, 1000 and 1500. But it's not just astrologers who get it wrong. Here is a selection of the world's worst predictions, made by people who should have knownbetter.
1. it doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything. Albert Einsteins teacher talking to his father, 1895. (science)
2. Who will want to hear an actor talk? (film and tv)
3.I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. (computers)
4. Airplanes are interesting toys, but they will be of no military value. (science)
5. You'd better learn secretarial work orget married. (fashion)
6 The idea of space travel is nonsense. (science)
7. The problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued to the screen, and the average Americanfamily just hasn't time for (film and tv)
8. We don't like their sound, groups of guitars are on their way out. (music)
9. It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with the winter coming. (fashion)10. By 2000, computers and other devices linked by telephones and radio waves will allow millions of people to exchange electronic mail, shop, work at home, take classes, pay taxes, plan holidays andentertain themselves. (computer)
11. By 2000, more than 1000 people will live and work on the moon, according to nasa predictions. (science).
12. Everything that can be invented has already beeninvented. (science)




hacerlo mal.
desde la antigüedad los expertos han estado prediciendo el futuro. si estuviera asustado de que el fin del mundo estaba llegando en el año 2000, noteníamos que habernos preocupado: la misma predicción se hizo en el año 500 AD, 1000 y 1500. Pero no son sólo los astrólogos que se equivocan. He aquí una selección de las peores predicciones del mundo,...