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Frustrated by how quickly pundits’ bad predictions just disappear down the Memory Hole? Fret no more - Wrong Tomorrow captures great oopsies, both silly:
I expect that within the next five years more than one in ten people will wear head-mounted computer displays while traveling in buses, trains, and planes.
- Nicholas Negroponte, 11 Jan 1999
and tragic:
“I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq.”
-Tom Friedman, 2 Mar 2006
and even the ones that occasionally get it right:
“I wouldn’t be at all shocked to see the economy move toward slow growth or no growth (can you say recession) over the next 12 months.”
- Mike Myatt, 28 Nov 2006
Still small, but let’s hope they keep fighting the fight…
