“Unbelievable Forecasts: 10 Futuristic Predictions That Crashed and Burned!”
Cars Would Only Be Popular For A Short Time
Back in 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank advised Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, that he better start saving his money if he was working with Ford. He told Rackham that “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.”
Although we all wish that this was the case and there were fewer cars on the road, it’s clear that’s not true. Cars completely transformed society and while it may have taken them some time to become the norm, they’re here to stay.
Everything Would Be Made of Steel
Thomas Edison may have invented the light bulb, but that doesn’t mean he was right about everything, especially when it came to the future. In 1911, he gave an interview with the Miami Metropolis where he discussed the booming steel industry.
He went on to predict that “The baby of the 21st century will be rocked in a steel cradle; his father will sit in a steel chair at a steel dining table, and his mother’s boudoir will be sumptuously equipped with steel furnishings.” While we do use a lot of steel, it’s certainly not to this extent.
Electricity Was Just A Fad
Supposedly, when J.P. Morgan hired Thomas Edison to wire his mansion with electricity, his father, Junius Morgan, warned him that electricity was nothing more than a fad. J.P. Morgan ended up ignoring his father’s cautioning, and his home became the first residence in New York with electric lighting.
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