“Unbelievable Forecasts: 10 Futuristic Predictions That Crashed and Burned!”
He predicted that if people had access to listen to music whenever without needing to study or understand the techniques, “it will be simply a question of time when the amateur disappears entirely.” Of course, today, it seems that recorded music has had the opposite effect.
All Women Would Be Six Feet Tall
In 1950, Associated Press writer Dorothy Roe claimed that by 2000, all women would be at least six feet tall. She came to this conclusion using what she considered to be scientific evidence.
Roe wrote, “Her proportions will be perfect, though Amazonian because science will have perfected a balanced ration of vitamins, proteins, and minerals that will produce the maximum bodily efficiency, the minimum of fat.” Although not all women are six feet tall — in fact, not even close — the average height has risen. So maybe she was partially right.
Telephones Would Never Be More Than A Toy
In 1976, William Orton, the president of the Western Union, described the newly emerging telephone as a toy. This was after Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell him the patent for $100,000, a deal he would later wish he had taken Bell up on.
An internal Western Union memo revealed Orton’s true thoughts on the phone when he reported, “The idea is idiotic on the face of it. Furthermore, why would any person want to use this ungainly and impractical device when he can send a messenger to the telegraph office and have a clear written message sent to any large city in the United States?” If only he could have seen an iPhone.
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