Top 87 bad predictions about the future. A few caught my eye.

Democracy will be dead by 1950.

—- John Langdon-Davies

Well, maybe he was wrong about the year.

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose.

—- Herbert Hoover on Prohibition

That’s not a prediction! It was certainly wrong, though.

Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of nature, its own negation.

—- Karl Marx

A bad prediction, eh? Don’t get too cocky there. We haven’t reached the end of history yet.