“Unbelievable Forecasts: 10 Futuristic Predictions That Crashed and Burned!”
People Will Only Want To Shop At Stores
Time Magazine released a piece in 1966 titled “The Futurist,” which predicted what life would look like in the year 2000. One thing they predicted is that people will only shop at brick and mortar stores. It read, “Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop—because women like to get out of the house, like to handle the merchandise, like to be able to change their minds.”
Of course, this was a failed prediction considering the success of websites such as Amazon, which the majority of people use on a regular basis. Some people don’t even go to the grocery store anymore, ordering their food online instead.
People Will Get Tired Of Televisions
In 1946, 20th Century Fox higher-up Darryl Zanuck claimed that “Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
Whether he actually believed this is unclear, but surely he had this opinion because he was afraid that television would eventually become more popular than going to the theaters. Being an important man in the film industry, it’s not surprising that he would speak out against the new invention.
Everything Was Going To Collapse On January 1, 2000
Before the turn of the millennium, computers only recorded dates using the last two digits of every year. With the year 2000 around the corner, a lot of respected and trusted people began to fear that computers would think it was 1900 when the numbers turned to “00.”
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