Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
then open in external browser
and click "Open in External Browser" 
35 Future Predictions That Aged So Poorly, They’re Almost Comical
Interview With Expert
The future is unpredictable, but that hasn’t stopped people from making bold claims about what’s to come. From failed technology predictions to outrageous statements about culture and society, some of these guesses aged so poorly, they’re laughable today.
Today, the Bored Panda team scoured the internet to find exactly that. Whether it’s outdated scientific forecasts or overconfident business takes, these moments prove that even the smartest minds can get it wrong. Keep reading to see some of the worst predictions that didn’t stand the test of time!
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
Found This In The Supply Closet(It’s A Box Of Plastic Bags)
Lame Llama 9 months ago
Not at all. Go read up on the history of plastic. Plastic was invented to be a sustainable material that could be and should be reused over and over again. We are the one who decided to go against the original vision and turn it into a use-and-throw-away.
Load More Replies...
Tim Douglass 9 months ago
In a nutshell, this is why it's hard to solve environmental problems. We tend to take a single point approach - "stop cutting trees", "save the whales", "don't use plastic straws" - and forget that we live in a society of vast, complex interconnections. Solving one problem can, and usually does, create new ones (or exacerbate other old ones). People fret because progress is slow, but more often than not slow is better than too fast.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
Good points made here. When someone comes up with a solution they don't - probably can't - know all the possible repercussions, especially some that will happen in other countries and cultures.
Load More Replies...
Lee451 Henderson 9 months ago
I remember the pre-plastic bag environentalist cry: "You would cut down an entire forest just to bag your groceries!?".
Lee Gilliland 7 months ago
How to tell me you're old without saying you're old.
Load More Replies...
Janet Graham 9 months ago
When it was decided to quit killing trees by using paper bags in grocery stores, they decided that plastic was more environmentally friendly. I was one of the voices yelling that trees are a renewable resource and plastic is forever. I started using canvas bags and have never stopped. I haven't stopped using all plastics, but I do reuse and recycle plastic as long as possible.
RELATED:
#2
Google In 1999 And Today Its Completely Opposite
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 9 months ago
Back then their motto was "Don't be Evil". And now you can see the Gulf of America on Google Maps.
Load More Replies...
Pferdchen 9 months ago
This is another ball that Digital Equipment Corporation dropped big time. They had a wonderful search engine named Altavista, which was the first searchable full-text search database on the World Wide Web. It was, hands down, the superior search engine back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
Alex Ruddies 9 months ago
Ahh, a prime example of enshitification, which is an actual term by the way...
LizzieBoredom 9 months ago
Good God. I've been singing "Memories like the corners of my mind" for years.
Load More Replies... 
Jess Bertram 9 months ago
Yeah that "core value" sure went away quickly, didn't it?
Load More Replies... #3
Kevin...you Sweet, Sweet Summer Child
While many of us joke about what the future holds, there are people who take it very seriously—and even make a career out of it. Whether it’s astrologers, fortune tellers, or numerologists, predicting the future has fascinated humanity for centuries.
Some people swear by it, while others remain skeptical, but there’s no denying that astrology has remained a part of cultures worldwide.
#4
Classic Daily Mail
WindySwede 9 months ago
I remember "Internet är en fluga" - Ines Uusmann. Here in Sweden. Pretty much the same meaning.
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Panda 9 months ago
Oh wow, that's only from December 2000! That's just a few years ago
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
With dial-up modems and stupid Flash animations littering web pages, I can understand the sentiment
Lame Llama 9 months ago
Whoever wrote that headline has no idea what he was talking about. Internet has been used by the military long before it was made available to the public.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
The Internet was created mostly by academics, mostly from the US collaborating with the UK and France. It was a "university" thing from the start, and never purely military (although - ARPANET and all that...); it's all very complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#TCP/IP
Load More Replies...
Lee451 Henderson 9 months ago
There have been speculations that porn (being able to look without magazines being delivered in brown paper wrapping) caused the explosive growth of the early internet.
Load More Replies... 
Rick Murray 6 months ago
What do you expect? It's The Daily Mail. (for non UK pandas, this "newspaper" has a reputation; not as bad as The Express, but getting there)
Sofie Sunde 9 months ago
Actually on the day of my birth in 1976, my local newspaper had an article that said "Micro computers for everybody". A fun thing to discover.
#5
The Last Page Of This Book From 1981…
Janissary35680 9 months ago
And the survivor is contending with karma right now.
Load More Replies...
#6
This Old Cartoon About Transportation
Nice Beast Ludo 9 months ago
He's terrified that the cars are all going to drive themselves into the river and he has to start hauling humans again
Load More Replies...
Janissary35680 9 months ago
🤔 I'd like to see some verifiable publication info about that cartoon.
TMTMTMTM 9 months ago
Good catch. I used Google image search and found /u/Phemto_B on Reddit writing "Found it. It's from 2014. https://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=112914 " But with the "Married To The Sea.com" watermark at bottom left stripped off. It looks like a comic like Wondermark: taking old illustrations and providing joke captions.
Load More Replies... Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
My horse is in the pro-car lobby. Anything to stop me riding him!
Janet Graham 9 months ago
Horses cost less to run and don't destroy the environment. Our lives would be much different if we had to work within 5 miles of home.
CD Mills 7 months ago
I have loved horses and riding since I was little, and while I'd rather ride than eat, I do appreciate the convenience of an automobile. You can even put six horses in a trailer and tote them with you! Especially appreciated when the weather gets really 'weathery' to any extreme as well.
Astrology is based on the belief that planetary movements and positions influence human behavior and events on Earth. It’s a practice that has been studied and refined over thousands of years, with different schools of thought emerging across the world. While some see it as a science of the stars, others view it as a guiding tool for self-awareness and decision-making.
#7
Lady Gaga Had A Hater Group
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
Bahahahahaha yeah all 12 members 😆😆😆 Just think how stupid and angry the 12 losers must be ; )
Definitely a Human 9 months ago
Can you imagine just how insufferable she must have been for this group to be created? She must have been absolutely horrendous to be around if it drove someone to create a Facebook group
Rick Murray 6 months ago
Or maybe just jealousy, because she's kind of cute and I bet the haters aren't.
Load More Replies... #8
50 Years Isn't That Long
Daman dan 9 months ago
Well at least they listened and put money away for the future
Load More Replies... SCamp 9 months ago
I know the music industry is filled with these types of anecdotes but the music executive who first listened to Led Zeppelin said ‘you’ll go nowhere with that lead singer.” The lead singer of course was Robert Plant widely acknowledged as one of the greatest ever rock singers and frontmen
#9
Happy New Year!
LizzieBoredom 9 months ago
I think when Jeff got a truth injection, he was in the placebo group.
Phil Green 9 months ago
I think, proportionately, more of us vaccinated survived, than the unvaccinated idiots.
Sherry Errera 9 months ago (edited)
There's no proof of that, but there is proof they monkeyed around with the data to osbcure facts from the public.
Load More Replies...
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Sadly I got all my vaccination boosters and such and am consequently still alive to see 2025.
To gain a deeper understanding, Bored Panda spoke with Acharya Anju Agarwal, a MahaVastu consultant and expert in Vaastu & Astrology, who provides both home and online consultations from Mumbai, India.
With years of experience, she helps people understand how astrology influences various aspects of their lives—from relationships to career choices.
#10
"There Is No Reason Anyone Would Want A Computer In Their Home." --Ken Olson, President, Chain-Nan And Founder Of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
To be fair, he was basing this on the then-current capabilities and purposes of a computer.
David 9 months ago
It aged poorly, but in a sort of positive way. I was a computer user in 1977 but I had to go to our local college computer lab to do it. PCs were not a thing. It was a server with dumb terminals. Basically what I'm say is, the quoted comment was likely based on - for the average person computers were insanely expensive and there was little they could do entertainment wise and a fair bit of learning curve. So it's a good thing that computers got relatively inexpensive, massively smaller, and can do just about anything.
Warren Peece 9 months ago
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
Choice between computer and mouse, and cat and mouse. I'll take the second option.
8mbfdyb5kj 1 month ago
Yes , even Tim Berners-Lee didn’t foresee the feline domination of the internet. Or the fact that cats would have to adapt from siting on lovely warm CRT monitors to sitting on your laptop keyboard, then having their own apps on tablets 🐈🐈⬛😊
Lena Flising 3 months ago
Now, we all have a computer in our pockets, and even the washing machine is a computer…
#11
‘King Charles & Queen Diana’ - Well This One Tops The Cake
A prediction of the future about Prince Charles and Lady Diana from a 1992 royal magazine.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 9 months ago
Who could have ever predicted that Charles would be king. It was a million to one shot.
Load More Replies... Kat Alison 9 months ago
They should have let him marry Camilla in the first damn place. Then maybe Diana would still be alive.
Ariom Dahl 9 months ago
True, but then William and Harry would never have been born. Charles and Camilla would have had other children, I presume.
Load More Replies...
Janet Graham 9 months ago
The window company run by William and Harry named Royal Panes....they got that right!
#12
Well This Didn’t Age Well
Chihuahua Mama 9 months ago
This has 'grouchy old person who shakes fist at young hooligans' written all over
David 9 months ago
You could freshen this up a bit by replacing the word "Skateboarding" with "Break Dancing" and changing the graphic to the kangaroo / raptor pose. /J
CD Mills 7 months ago
I wish I could have learned to skateboard, it looks so cool. I tried skateboarding as a teen, that's when I found out I had balance issues due to an inner ear thing. That explained why I sucked at gymnastics too, if some part of me isn't touching the Earth or something on it I instantly can't discern which way is up, like Extra Light Vertigo. Rolling felt like flying with the bed spins, no control.
“An astrological chart is a wheel divided into 12 zodiac signs, which correspond to 12 different houses—each representing a specific area of life,” Acharya Anju explained.
“These houses are influenced by planetary placements, and the interactions between these planets shape a person’s unique astrological profile.”
#13
An Old "Helpful" Tip In A Magazine
Ace 9 months ago
Actually not as bad as you might think. They were not sealed so there was no rick of explosion, and zinc oxides are not high on the list of harmful air contaminants. Certainly not to be recommended, but not nearly as dumb as it sounds.
Load More Replies...
Warren Peece 9 months ago
Asbestos was a good idea. But it was used in some inappropriate applications.
Load More Replies...
Definitely a Human 9 months ago
"and you can deeply inhale the fumes to ensure a good night's sleep!"
David 9 months ago
We didn't do that but does anyone remember those containers of sprinkles they sold for the fireplace? They would make interesting colors. As an adult, I'm assuming they were little pieces of some of the same metals that put in fireworks for the various colors. There was also a presto style log they sold that had stuff added for colors.
Catlady6000 9 months ago
Amazon has them. My daughter gets a few every time they go camping
Load More Replies...
WindySwede 9 months ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/9pDw-mD1AtE at least Zink.
Load More Replies... 
M O'Connell 9 months ago
The reason every battery you've ever seen says "do not dispose of in fire" on it is because this used to be common practice. Batteries from this era had cardboard casings around a thin zinc can with a carbon rod in the center, they weren't sealed and couldn't explode. Alkaline batteries didn't come to market until the mid-1950s at the earliest, so people had 70 years of "throw it in the fireplace" to overcome.
Load More Replies...
#14
"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one." - W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
Reminds me of the Sadler family saying that Oxy is not addictive
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 9 months ago
"If research actually played a role in this study, it seems to be a minor one."
David 9 months ago
I forgive them for not knowing as much in the 50s. But I find it so disgusting that in the 90s, testifying to Congress, tobacco execs told bald faced lies about cigarettes not being addictive, not causing cancer and so on. Even when internal memos proved them to be knowingly lying, I don't think any of them got into serious trouble.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
In the 1950s, the tobacco companies knew full well their products caused lung cancer. They lied about it then and lied for decades after. https://aacrjournals.org/cebp/article/16/6/1070/260310/The-Cigarette-Controversy
Load More Replies...
CP 9 months ago
The people that believed this back then believe all the oil company studies on global warming.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Exxon knew about global warming from its own research in 1977: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/.
Load More Replies...
WubiDubi 9 months ago
They are now looking at some people (life long smokers) that seem to be able to killl off their own cancers much better than others. Most of us kill off hundreds of cancers but smoking increases the rate dramatically.
Sherry Errera 9 months ago
This was apparently true for those fighting covid as well. You'd think the opposiite would be true given that it attacked the respiratory system, but it seems smokers were able to fight off the virus to lessen symptoms, reduced infection severity and got well faster that others studied. Wonder if it's something to do with nicotine.
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 9 months ago
Perhaps compared to how much asbestos and other toxic things people were breathing in through the early 20th century.
Load More Replies... Janet Graham 9 months ago
It was the soldiers who were serious smokers and most of them died in the wars!
#15
"Everything That Can Be Invented Has Been Invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office Of Patents, 1899
Amy Lee 9 months ago
World might have been better if we'd stopped then. No weapons that would wipe out life as we know it...
Load More Replies...
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Kind of like religious believers who think all one needs to ever know is in one book.
Sally Moen 9 months ago
Everything has been created, the basic elements, but the combinations and solutions of elements, still going. And new things still getting discovered
LizzieBoredom 9 months ago
I can't wait until someone invents anti-gravity so I can finally reach my goal weight.
MushroomHead22 9 months ago
i think his point was more that everything that NEEDS to be invented has already been invented. from here on out every other invention will simply be a modified version of something that has already been invented.
Over the centuries, astrologers have studied these planetary movements and developed interpretations that range from understanding individual personalities to analyzing world events. “There are different branches of astrology,” she shared.
“Like the branches of a tree, they all stem from the same core but take different directions—some focus on personal traits, while others predict larger events in politics, economics, or natural disasters.”
#16
"A Rocket Will Never Be Able To Leave The Earth's Atmosphere." New York Times, 1936
TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago
Werner von Braun: Halt mal mein Bier (The Aggregat 4 "V2" was the first man made rocket do reach space in WW2)
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
🎵 A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience. Call him a nazi, he won't even frown, 'Ha nazi schamtzi' says Werner von Braun. 🎵
Load More Replies...
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
The New York Times also predicted that heavier than air flight would not be achieved in less than a million years - 69 days before the Wright Brothers did their famous thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Machines_Which_Do_Not_Fly. If the New York Times says it can't be done, place a bet it'll happen inside a decade. 😉
Lorraine R 3 months ago
Lord Kelvin proclaimed in 1895: "Heavier-than-air flight is impossible."
Load More Replies...
Opal Chagrin 9 months ago
I had belonged to group forum but left after one member went on about how the rocket blast offs are fake because they climb so slow and many others liked & supported his comment! I thought, don't you consider how rockets have to escape Earth's gravity and that's why it seems to take a while?!
Load More Replies... 
Brian Droste 9 months ago
Jules Verne figured out the velocity to leave the earth in his book From the Earth to the Moon. But he got it partly wrong about gravity in space and the atmosphere on the moon.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
I've no idea who first worked out escape velocity, but it wasn't Jules Verne - Isaac Newton could have done it, centuries before.
Load More Replies...
Rocket Surgeon 9 months ago
That person didn't consider the possibility of bringing your oxygen with you to keep burning the fuel.
#17
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).
StrangeOne 9 months ago
This reminds me of a Little House On The Prairie episode, when Walnut Grove got a telephone line. All calls had to go through the switchboard, that happened to be in the nosey Mrs. Oleson, who ended up using the switchboard lines to eavesdrop on people's phone calls.
TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago
Reminds me of the reason why the automatic system was invented - An undertaker got annyoed that the operator would always connect to her husband for such services first and developed a system to make her job obsolete
Load More Replies...
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Phones were pretty useless back then. You couldn't even post cat videos on them.
Daman dan 9 months ago
Well in fairness, it is pretty much obsolete now. It did have a good run though! But I mean who talks to people these days? *shudder*
Janissary35680 9 months ago
Personally I avoid it like the plague. When the bot says press 1 or stay connected to talk to a c-rep I bail.
Load More Replies... Rosie 9 months ago
In the 80s there was talk of one day there being a telephone with screens so we could see each other.
Remi (He/Him) 9 months ago
Even before that. They had video calling in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and that one's from the 60s iirc
Load More Replies... LizzieBoredom 9 months ago
If I had a criminal gang and we needed a way to communicate undetected, I'd get a land-line.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Before the internet, IBM had an engineer who developed a high speed IC for computers to communicate to each other. IBM's executives thought "We don't need to connect computers. Who needs it?" So they laid off the engineers whole team.
Kat Alison 9 months ago
They’re not wrong, though….I use my smartphone for everything except talking.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
I'm glad it's not just me. People think I'm mad when I say, "Please don't phone the mobile" (I have a landline for that, and some friends who don't have mobiles or laptops, etc.)
Load More Replies... Janet Graham 9 months ago
It hasn't been too many years since Western Union no longer sends/receives telegraphs. After 150 years of service, they ended in 2006.
Karen Reeves 9 months ago
There were still party lines operating in my village when I moved here in 1986. And our telephone exchange was the first automated one in the country. (New Zealand)
#18
Not Sure Why He Deleted This Comment From November?
keyboardtek 9 months ago
New job openings coming soon for MAGAs: requires working long hard days in the sun harvesting our fruit and vegetables for less than minimum wage.
erich 9 months ago
Should we be OK with anyone, immigrant or not, working for less than minimum wage? Just because people want something like fruit cheap doesn't mean we should condone the exploitation of labor.
Load More Replies...
LizzieBoredom 9 months ago
Considering the cost of flying people back to South America, hiring extra ICE agents, building the TrumpPenis Wall, etc., it might be cheaper to let them stay.
Load More Replies...
So how does astrology actually work? “It’s all about the alignment of celestial bodies at a given time,” she explained. “Your birth chart, for instance, is a snapshot of the sky at the exact moment and location of your birth. It’s like your cosmic blueprint, revealing your strengths, challenges, and tendencies.”
Astrology isn’t one-size-fits-all—there are different types, each offering a unique perspective. Some focus on personal insight, while others examine broader societal changes. “For example, mundane astrology is used to predict global events, while medical astrology looks at health patterns based on planetary alignments,” she added.
#19
Welp, This Aged Like Milk Now, Didn’t It?
Rick Murray 6 months ago
Netflix are the now robber barons. The price I'm paying now is the price I was paying when I signed up, just before Covid, the only difference is that now it's with advertising. Hmm, didn't I sign up because I was fed up with all the incessant advertising elsewhere?
#20
This Meme I Sent To A Friend On 21/12/19
Libstak 9 months ago
We need a better plague, the last one was not discerning or virulent enough
Michael Largey 9 months ago
But the last plague returned in January anyway.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 9 months ago
We already have a new plague that affect the mind. It primarily has infected Republicans, conservatives and MAGAs,
Opal Chagrin 9 months ago
Thanks Rosie, I thought I was alone in thinking that! Instead, we keep multiplying exponentially. Which contributes to our destruction of our planet, ruining the climate, making many species extinct, polluting the oceans, etc.
Load More Replies... JoNo 9 months ago
It was named on 31-12-19, hence it was Covid-19 and not Covid-20.
Load More Replies... 
Willem Andries Oosterhof 9 months ago
Not really a prediction. Coving 19 reared it's ugly head in November 2019 and was on its way to become a global problem. So this turned out to be the new plague but it was already raging.
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
First we need to eradicate the plague of STUPID that has become quite rampant and HIGHLY contagious. Trump said if we buy his $500 NFT, we will be cured, so thats good.
Vicki Perizzolo 9 months ago
with the MAGA anti-vaxxers out there - it's Darwinism in steroids.
#21
Found This In My Photos Recently
Quinn 9 months ago (edited)
Fine? I'm reminded of the meme with the cartoon dog sitting at a table with a cup of coffee, while fires rage around him.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
We had a global pandemic without widespread economic collapse, bodies piling up in the street, or it causing wars. It could have been better, but it also could have been oh so much worse. There was at least one Covid-19 vaccine candidate being mass produced for clinical trials in February 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COVID-19_vaccine#Early_development. And that, people, was astonishingly fast.
Load More Replies... Warren Peece 9 months ago
People who understand statistics will know that the sign may have been correct.
Vicki Perizzolo 9 months ago
not with a Prez who decide to let a million people die before realizing he'd messed up.
Nosirrow 9 months ago
I did love the first lockdown. Getting paid to stay home, social distancing, people under 18 couldn't go outside without an adult, so no screaming kids. Also, when places started to open, no children allowed. I went to the shopping centre, had a big Macdonald's meal in freaking silence. Though it was very sad when children were allowed again to ruin everything with their screaming.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Oh but "when" you have a child of your own you'll change your mind about kids being annoying and loud! (SO glad nobody's ever said that to me. I've got nothing against children; I just don't want any of my own).
Load More Replies...One of the most common types is natal astrology, which revolves around an individual’s birth chart. “It highlights everything from career tendencies to relationship dynamics,” Acharya Anju said. “Then there’s relationship astrology, which compares two or more birth charts to analyze compatibility and connection between individuals.”
Of course, astrology has its fair share of critics. “Some people believe in it deeply, while others dismiss it as pure superstition,” she admitted. “And that’s completely fine—everyone has the right to their own beliefs.”
#22
Sorry Man
JL 9 months ago
Jeff, can you post a follow-up? I'd like to know what problems I'll be running into.
Libstak 9 months ago
A touch screen in a car though, thats some serious Darwin award invoking sh.it.
WindySwede 9 months ago
Especially when everything is there! The settings for the car I can see, that you set and forget. But the heating cooling, music, etc should be real nobs!
Load More Replies...
T'Mar of Vulcan 9 months ago
I agree with Jeff. I hate touchscreens with a passion, but they're what you get if you have to have a smartphone. I'm always typing gibberish because of how much I struggle with the stupid touchscreens. Not to mention accidentally closing apps I'm using because I moved half a millimetre to the bottom when trying to go to another 'page'.
Dee Rutherford 6 months ago
You can buy a stylus that can be more accurate, and they have a pen clip so you can keep it handy.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 9 months ago
My pet rats are able to operate my phone with their little ppppppppppppppppppppppppppp GET OFF MY PHONE DAMINIOWERIODNF
Sally Moen 9 months ago
I guess he was referring to buttdialing his ex when drunkenly sitting on his phone
Rocket Surgeon 9 months ago
There are many problems with touchscreens, like accidentally answering a call when you wanted to click "OK" on a web page right as someone's calling you. Or accidentally opening an app because you touched the screen while picking the phone up. There are also benefits that make those worth it. Mostly. Sometimes.
#23
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. Steve Ballmer, USA Today, April 30, 2007.
Strahd Ivarius 9 months ago
Before the iPhone was out, I had a Windows-powered phone with a touchscreen...
Load More Replies... Warren Peece 9 months ago
The only thing Steve Ballmer ever accomplished was being Bill Gates' friend. He got paid big money for that.
Lame Llama 9 months ago
Mac already had a cult following and THE os for graphic designers, publishers, web designers by then. This was a totally uninformed statement.
Michael P. 9 months ago
BlackBerry used to be popular over 10 years ago. It was a early version of a smartphone but with a keyboard. Unfortunately, they couldn't keep up with Apple and Samsung and they went under.
#24
They Had To End Him In The End
Beak Hookage 9 months ago (edited)
Of course, fans know he was chosen BECAUSE he had played a comically inept dad character. Reminds me of what Sir Anthony Hopkins said about being cast as Hannibal Lector. The director told him it was because of his performance as Dr Treves in The Elephant Man. Hopkins said "but Treves is a good man" and was told "yeah, that's what I want for Lector; a good man locked in an insane mind". And boy did it ever pay off.
DeShotz 9 months ago
Vince Gilligan knew Cranston had the dramatic chops from his performance in an X-Files episode that Gilligan wrote. Studio execs only knew Cranston from MITM and were hesitant to cast him. It was only after their first two choices declined the role and they watched the X-Files episode that they agreed to cast Cranston.
Load More Replies...
Maggie Fulton 9 months ago
Same thing for Hugh Laurie. Before House, he was known for his comedy roles, and a lot of people thought he couldn’t pull off a dramatic character.
Sweetie Dahling 9 months ago
Someone has never seen Robin Williams in Awakenings or One Hour Photo
Lorraine R 3 months ago
Wish I could remember the name of the 19th century actor who was visited on his deathbed by a friend who sat with him for a while, and at some point sighed, "Ah, this is hard!" The actor opened his eyes and replied, "No, dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
Load More Replies...
VisualHowlaroundTitleSequence 9 months ago
This comment has been deleted.
Load More Replies... Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
Comedy is the most difficult genre - period. People think comedy is easy and fun and silly, but its actually very difficult. If you can do comedy well, then you can do ANYTHING in acting well. People are always so shocked when a comedic actor can do drama - but what should surprise people is when a dramatic actor can do comedy.
Šimon Špaček 9 months ago
Hugh Laurie was a comediant, some would even say jester. And he was not bad doctor House.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 9 months ago
Sadly, most people today don't remember him as a comic actor
“We don’t claim to be God,” she emphasized. “Astrology isn’t about controlling fate, but rather understanding patterns and tendencies. It’s meant to offer guidance, not definitive answers.”
Regardless of where you stand on the subject, there’s no denying that astrology continues to intrigue millions of people. Whether you check your horoscope daily or roll your eyes at the idea of Mercury Retrograde ruining your week, it’s a practice that’s deeply rooted in history and human curiosity.
#25
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
My dad has stories about the old computers which filled entire rooms. It sounds AMAZING. Yet now I have a computer hundreds of times more powerful which fits right in my pocket. In hindsight that's kind of insane.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
My father too. Also came home talking about computers the size of a small fridge. One went wrong and they had to call in the specialist repair guy, he spent ages fiddling but couldn't fix it so he slammed the door and it started working.
Load More Replies... 
Warren Peece 9 months ago
I expect this one was added to the list by someone who doesn't understand mathematical concepts.
#26
“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.” - Charlie Chaplin
Corvus 9 months ago
Well, theater is still around, so the demand for live actors on stage has not disappeared. But neither have movies.
Šimon Špaček 9 months ago
I think that there is a big potential in situational drama. Something like "choose your own (mis)adventure"
Load More Replies... 
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
I wonder if he thought back on this remark when he himself was now appearing in movies?
Rich Black 9 months ago
They closed the cineplex at my mall. Everyone watches cable on a 75 inch screen at home now.
Janet Graham 9 months ago
Yeah, but not too many theater groups will put on a show in my home. Not even comics or vaudeville groups!
#27
Found In A Local Thrift Shop
The Scout 9 months ago
There won't be a PRESIDENT for some time if this keeps up. Just a "Supreme Leader", probably followed by someone of his dynasty...
Load More Replies...
Tyranamar Seuss 9 months ago
This is so sad. I didn’t love Hillary. She’s your classic politician. But I voted for her bc I knew the orange man who thinks gold toilets are in good taste was going to be a disaster. How quickly we forget.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 9 months ago
This has nothing to do with the post, but spelling 'Hillary' with 2 Ls will always look weird to me. (Because I know someone named Hilary who spells it with one L)
While the people in these posts aren’t professional astrologers, they certainly made some bold predictions—some eerily accurate, others wildly off the mark.
Whether you’re a believer in the stars or just enjoy a good laugh at how things turn out, these predictions prove that the future is always full of surprises. Which one did you find the most peculiar? Let us know!
#28
It will be gone by June.- Variety, passing judgement on rock 'n roll in 1955
Ty Stratton-Quirk 9 months ago
To be fair, they just said June, and didn't specify what year. Maybe in a few centuries, they'll be proven right?
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Look at some of the weird new guitar designs that were displayed at the latest NAMM show.
Load More Replies... 
Kenny Kulbiski 9 months ago
Rock and roll is gone. Replaced by.........whatever that stuff is.
Michael P. 9 months ago
Billy Joel has a song called 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me'. The songs references about how he is not keeping up with the latest trends in music and that his style of music will go out of fashion while adamant that people will still like his style of music. The song came out in 1980 and it definitely has stood the test of time.
#29
Quote From Ellen In A Book My Daughter Is Reading
keyboardtek 9 months ago
She is one of the planet's over rated under talented celebrities.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 9 months ago
To be fair, celebrity books are usually churned out by ghostwriters . .
Ellinor 9 months ago
She had a HUGE tendency to disrespect her guests. The group BTS are Korean and they come from a rather pudic country. First question she asked them : "Have any of you ever slept with a fan ?". Several members of the show's employees reported her coldness and rules such as "don't look at me and don't speak to me", some of them were fired for taking a sick day leave, and one day 36 employees reported sexual harassment from the producers and said that Ellen knew and never did anything.
Load More Replies... #30
An Old Memory Of Mine... Don't Ask Me For Any Future Advice
StrangeOne 9 months ago
He does have a point. No one wants to call. No one even wants to face time.
tracy black 9 months ago
i personally dont wanna talk on the phone much less someone looking at me while i do it
Tim Douglass 9 months ago
I hate video calls. My wife loves to video call the grandkids. When I talk to someone on the phone I put on my bluetooth headset and wander around the house doing useful stuff while I talk.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
I can understand it more with grandchildren (I don't have any, but I imagine.)
Load More Replies... Rocket Surgeon 9 months ago
If I could avoid video calls 100% of the time I would. I don't even want to voice call.
Michael P. 9 months ago
Texting is better when it comes to holding down a conversation. I would rather text than call someone, unless it's really necessary or for work related purposes.
Lee451 Henderson 9 months ago
Video phones were introduced in 1964. No one wanted to be seen on the phone...
#31
Comments About Computers From Long Ago
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
That article down the bottom about the kid who got struck by lightning made me chuckle.
David 9 months ago
The 640K comment always makes me chuckle because it reminds me an IRL hard drive equivalent. Early 90s, my friend was doing desktop publishing and I had a small computer business. His 40 meg hard drive was getting full so I helped him upgrade to a 120 MB hard drive. I recall us discussing how he'd never use that much storage space. LOL.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Circa 1990 (or was it 1994? I can't remember), I got to hang around a university computer aided design lab, and was blown away by the new HP Unix workstation they got - with a 1GB hard disc. "No way!" was my thinking...
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 9 months ago
The second one is right. Today's computers don't weight more than 1.5 tons.
Corvus 9 months ago
As a DOS gaming veteran, I am quite aware of the consequences of the 640K barrier... it was already being circumvennted through the use of expanded memory (EMS), and later, extended memory (XMS) before the 80's was over, so his prediction aged badly pretty quickly.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Steve Jobs infamously demanded that the original Mac be impossible to expand. The engineers ignored him and made the PCB with enough address lines that you could add to the standard 128K of RAM if you weren't above a bit of soldering. Which was handy, because the Mac used for demonstrations at the original launch in 1984 was an in-house special fitted with the 512K RAM needed to run the demo software...
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Yeah, but to be fair to Bill Gates, he was thinking in the context of PCs having previously only been able to address a total of 64kB of memory, which was horribly expensive in any case. So ten times that ought to be enough, right? At least until the next generation of PCs and OSes? - only it was a design decision that continued to be a restriction for long after, since the OS in question was a huge success. I seem to recall a similar flawed line of thinking restricted the original Apple Macs to 4MB RAM, a barrier broken after the Mac Plus. But my memory might be wrong.
Load More Replies... #32
Rapture Faster
TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago
Maybe they all happened but nobody made it upwards - damn would that be hilarious
Load More Replies...
David 9 months ago (edited)
These ones always amuse me because the bible says “No man knoweth the day or hour”. So if you believe the bible you don't post a sign like that and if you don't believe the bible you don't post a sign like that. There was some guy (or group?) and mailed me a little pamphlet about 10 years or more ago. Claimed to know date. Date passed. A year or two later he did anther one which explained why the first one was wrong but the current one was now the sure date. (Spoiler - that date came and went as well)
Opal Chagrin 9 months ago
Great minds think alike - thanks for saving me from having to write and explain what you did so eloquently 😊
Load More Replies... 
#33
"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now; All that remains is more and more precise measurement." - Lord Kelvin, speaking to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1900
Tyranamar Seuss 9 months ago
He would’ve been correct if physics didn’t get so funky once you break it down into tiny enough elements.
Rich Black 9 months ago
I innately distrust scientists who have been annointed honorary members of British royalty.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
Just another old guy who'd done more than most, achieved more than most, come up with a staggering number of brilliiant scientific and technical advances - who happened to get one thing wrong, on account of having not a clue about quantum *anything* because no-one did at that time - it was about 25 years before quantum physics started to be a thing (although the first glimmers were just about visible). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kelvin
Load More Replies... #34
Guy Regrets A Financial Decision
Corvus 9 months ago (edited)
Don't regret... the future is uncertain, and bitcoin may well turn out to be a bubble waiting to bursts at some point.
StrangeOne 9 months ago
Wasn't Bitcoin something that could be earned playing online games, or supposed to be?
Rachel Reynolds 9 months ago
In 2012? (maybe) I was in a Smash Bros competition. First Prize was 1000$, Second Prize was 500$, and third prize was 5 bitcoins. (I took 5th and got a Mt. Dew 2 liter)
Sven Grammersdorf 9 months ago (edited)
Uh, one Bitcoin today is worth $96,000. If he'd spent $100 on Bitcoin when it was $2.70, he'd have $3.6 million today
Load More Replies... Wintermute 9 months ago
I look at it this way. Even if I DID buy in to bitcoin early for like a dollar each or something, it would have gotten to, like, $5 and I'd have sold it and went, woohoo! 4 free dollars! And still been poor today.
Alex Ruddies 9 months ago
It started alright but it became just another scam in a long list of scams...
#35
Prediction From 1913
Wondering Alice 9 months ago
Seems like he is blaming it on rich women not wanting babies and poor women becoming factory workers. Would be nice to think the article is trying to provoke a debate on why women were making these 'choices' but I suspect it's just blaming us.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
Well they were wrong. I was born in 1982 and looked just like that.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Looks like one of Snap, Crackle, and Pop - icons for Rice Krispies, a breakfast cereal marketed by ... mmm .. Kellog's!
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Whatever this person was on, I don't want any. And that includes whoever drew the picture.
Highfalutin Heron 9 months ago
Yes Dr. Kellogg, we're all bat people enjoying our corn flakes.
#36
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." - Associates of Edwin L. Drake refusing his suggestion to drill for oil in 1859
SolitaryIntrovert 9 months ago
Drill Baby Drill is what maga politicians say to rile up the base. They won't admit the truth about that,though.
Load More Replies... #37
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk ?" - Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros, 1927
#38
Never Say Or Type It Out Loud
#39
“There Will Never Be A Bigger Plane Built.” Allegedly A Boeing Engineer, After The First Flight Of The 247, A Plane That Held Ten People
M O'Connell 9 months ago
What he should have said was that they had pushed the all-metal monocoque cantilevered-wing design as far as the metallurgy of 1933 would allow.
#40
"X-Rays will prove to be a hoax." - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
Lord Kelvin made numerous utterly wrong predictions. I think he also said that heavier than air flight would never happen (and it happened about 4 years later).
#41
That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced. Scientific American, Jan. 2 edition, 1909.
Kathy Brooke 9 months ago
Electric cars were the preferred approach until about 1912. The invention then of the starter motor so you didn't have to hand crank to start, plus the launch of the Ford 'Model T' swung in favour of ICE vehicles. There's an argument the move was heavily supported even then by the oil industry.
Load More Replies... #42
Experts Predicting Future In 1964
Juris Macto 9 months ago
Do you want Planet of the Apes? This is how you get Planet of the Apes….
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
I just imagined an alien or an AI robot exasperatedly saying this.
Load More Replies... CP 9 months ago
The 2020 prediction assumed we would treat all humans like humans.
Load More Replies... 
#43
Mmmmmm, Radium
Ty Stratton-Quirk 9 months ago
I understood that reference. I just wish I didn't.
Load More Replies... Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
"R****m" is apparently a taboo word; I shall endeavour to use the word "poophole" to avoid the wrath of BP censors
Janissary35680 9 months ago (edited)
Witness: And then he shot 'im right in the arsẹhole. Judge: You mean "rẹctụm"? Witness: Well Judge, it sure didn't do 'im no good.
Load More Replies...
aashi chaudhari 9 months ago (edited)
they are not wrong. it will heal you. it will kill you so that you don't have to suffer from all of that
Lisa Moreno 9 months ago
The address now belongs to Los Angeles City Hall, wild! Screenshot...b3-png.jpg 
Michael Largey 9 months ago
Expose yourself to enough radium, and all your illnesses won't bother you any more.
BeesEelsAndPups 9 months ago
Not a prediction, just a scam. Like the ones Trump, RFK Jr, and Dr Oz promote
Wintermute 9 months ago
Boy, I'm sure glad I took the time to focus on the word r****m today. Totally didn't stand out more because of that censorship.
#44
Reddit Comments After First iPhone Was Announced 14 Years Ago
#45
"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy." - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer, 1888.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
I'm always amazed when scientists come out with stuff like this. The whole thing about science is that there is always more to learn, and that the most common sentence in science is "we don't know yet".
M O'Connell 9 months ago
Telescope technology development had hit a bit of a wall at the time. Silver coated glass mirrors were the most recent innovation in reflecting telescope development, and that had been 30 years before. Dry plate photography allowed longer exposure times to capture more detail, but enormous leaps forward in astronomy weren't made until the mid 20th century with aluminum coated mirrors, and then in the 1970s with CCD image sensors.
Load More Replies... #46
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?" - Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter's call for investment in the radio in 1921.
M O'Connell 9 months ago
It amuses me that he never considered advertising would be a driving force.
Regina Holt 9 months ago
And now we have messages going out to whoever is ignorant enough to believe them (I'm looking at you Faux News, and other hateful podcasters and "truth social"
#47
Umm Guess We Aren’t Going
#48
“You Could Think Of Them As The Sixth Basic Food Group”
KamaboCo. 9 months ago
I had soooo many microplastics today, like, not to brag but this is a trend with, like everybody.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Have you tried the Microplastics Cleanse Diet yet? All my girlfriends are doing it; it's SO good for your gut flora and kidney function.
Load More Replies...
David 9 months ago
One could argue this is still an accurate statement. We now know a lot more about the downsides of plastics, but it is BECAUSE it still plays a huge role in food preservation and distribution (and other industries) that we are having such a difficult time finding viable alternatives. I am glad to see the world working on alternatives, but widespread solutions have proven elusive.
Jenny Barton 9 months ago
To be fair, plastic has improved the safety and longevity of our food supply considerably.
#49
He’s Gonna Miss It
#50
"Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan." - Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948
Leafy Dawn 9 months ago (edited)
I do wonder how quickly it would have caught on if not for the BBC televising The Queens coronation. Many people bought televisions for that precise reason in The UK..
#51
Democracy will be dead by 1950. - John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of The Future, 1936
Ace 9 months ago
Some countries got there much earlier, many still haven't reached that point.
Load More Replies... 
#52
2020 Showed Them
#53
Oops…
#54
French Artists View On How 21st Century Would Look Like [1962]
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Sorry, but this is Italian and it's one of the funniest journals ever to look back on.
Ace 9 months ago
In fact the (yes, Italian) artist was predicting only the type of transport, given the preponderance at that time of scooters, particularly in Italian cities.
Load More Replies...
Juris Macto 9 months ago
The bubble car would have prevented a lot of COVID infections
Load More Replies...
zububonsai 9 months ago (edited)
Oh, they totally overassumed on the A) decent well-dressedness aspect and the B) "politely greeting each other" habit, the rest seems to be pretty right.
#55
Boycott? Boycott
#56
Luther, a German priest and professor of theology, predicted the end of the world would occur no later than 1600, Martin Luther
#57
Someone Wrote This Article In 1982. Gaming Has Come A Long Way!
Amelia Jade 9 months ago
Anyone who says video games aren't educational, is making assumptions and actually knows nothing about video games.
David 9 months ago
You know, the same way every other form of entertainment that was "not educational" has also faded away. Plays, movies, television, radio, street buskers etc. Besides, Oregon Trail was released in 1971, so kids were already learning how everyone eventually dies from dysentery. /J
Remi (He/Him) 9 months ago
Learned a lot of English from some of the text based adventures even if they weren't designed to be educational
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
Oh please I was playing educational video games at school back in 1994
#58
Yeah…
#59
Did Anyone Get Raptured Recently?
#60
~100 Year Old Milk: Then Prince Edward Talking About His Future In A Book Printed During His Father’s Reign
Panda Kicki 9 months ago
Some of this assume to much. What did Edward do? I guess he ran away?
Libstak 9 months ago (edited)
Is he the one who abdicated and married an american divorcee? Ended up outed as a nazi sympathiser in later years and his niece became Queen Elizabeth II
Load More Replies...
Janissary35680 9 months ago (edited)
🎵🎶Edward the 8th I am. Edward the 8th I am. I'm gonna marry that American whore. She's been married at least twice before. But none of them was an Edward. If it's got a dıck, she doesn't give a damn. I'm the first one in named Edward. But Edward the 8th I am.🎶🎵
#61
Every Past Rapture Claim
BeesEelsAndPups 9 months ago
This one was actually a prediction about when my buddy Jesús was going to lose his virginity. Still wrong tho
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
The rapture is actually happening tomorrow, 2025-02-11 06:00 UTC. Sorry for the short notice, I hope everyone is ready nevertheless
Cecilie Hammershøy 9 months ago
There's a Danish movie where JC comes back but a ice cold business man convinces him to go to heaven. So maybe it has already happened.
#62
A 4 Month Old Comment By Me
TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago (edited)
Well, he underestimated how dense the population of wealthy countries are
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Population density my explain why rural people did not believe COVID was as bad as it was. Other than in church and in schools, they lived so far from their neighbors that the infection was not spread so far. Also they only watched FOX and right wing news who lied to them.
Load More Replies... #63
Very Old Graffiti In The Boys Locker Room Of My School
Corvus 9 months ago
Well, we still remember him. The dead rock star becomes a powerful symbol.
#64
Forgot The iPhone…
#65
This early French bishop announced the end of the world would happen during this year, 365 CE, Hilary of Poitiers
Rinso The Red 9 months ago
Considering the books of the Bible weren't even finalized by that time, that's a bold prediction.
#67
Spoke Wayyyy Too Soon
#68
Never Obsolete
Daman dan 9 months ago
The fine print explains that you can just upgrade as technology improves. So Technically, its really PC case that is never obsolete There are people still doing sleeper builds in these enclosures
David 9 months ago
Daman, It's not my main computer but I still have an old PC I upgraded so many times I'm pretty sure the case and power supply are the only original components. It started life as a 486 DX50 with MS DOS and an early version of Windows when it was a DOS overlay. I forget its current specs. Something like an Intel Celeron and WIN XP, IIRC.
Load More Replies... #69
What I Found On Linkedin The Other Day
#70
"Law will be simplified (over the next century). Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed."- journalist Junius Henri Browne, 1893
Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
That's a trifecta of incorrect predictions. Anyone have an example of a quadrella?
Nicola Mawson 9 months ago
ChatGPT has been known to do good research. Also spit out nonsense...
#71
Illustrations Of Miller's Views Of The End Of The World In 1843
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
People sure are keen on the idea of the world coming to an end. If I wasn't living in 2025, having already lived through 2020, I'd be rather baffled by it. But as it is...
Rinso The Red 9 months ago
It's hard coded into their belief system that this will happen. Not only that, but that it's ultimately a good thing when it does.
Load More Replies... #72
Newspapers
David 9 months ago
When I was a kid in the early 70s I think they were about a quarter. A friend had a neighborhood paper route. I helped him a few times. At collections time I think the bill for two weeks of delivery was something like $3 and change. Delivered was slightly cheaper than news stand single price.
#73
Aged Like Curdled Cheese
RamiRudolph 9 months ago
Of course it did. Don't embarass yourself by being wrong.
Load More Replies...
#74
:(
BeesEelsAndPups 9 months ago
This one is true. A hydro jetpack retails for between $10k and $20k. The JB10, which is a real flying jet pack costs $250K, which is a lot of money, but the BMW XM retails for about $200k.
CP 9 months ago
Now take that jet pack inland or are you going to have a really long hose?
Load More Replies... john doe 9 months ago
Jet packs have been viable for decades the problem is they are obviously very dangerous and take a ton of skill to safely pilot, and they would require a ton of regulation that the FAA would have to deal with, like filing a flight plan to go to work, and then if there was traffic from everyone using jet packs how to you regulate the traffic safely.
#75
One Day We’ll Be Laughing At The Paperhands Too
#76
It Was Already "Aged Like Milk" In 2011, But Now It's Aged X1662 Better Since Current Bitcoin Price Is $13,300
Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
Saw today that a chap wants to buy the tip (landfill site) that his hard drive with £620 million bitcoin was dumped in to try and retrieve it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yez74e74jo
#77
I'm So Sorry Guys, I Was Only Joking. It Was 2016 And Trump Had Just Won, I Was Trying To Think Of Something Even More Ridiculous
#78
Hopefully No One Listened
#79
Facebook Memories Reminding Me Of This L From 2014
Nice Beast Ludo 9 months ago
I wrote one that says "the new Facebook sucks. I'm making my merry way back to Myspace. Find me there friends" damn I miss Myspace. It was so much fun and self expressive. Oooh speaking of which who had an Express Page as their first social media????
#80
"Nuclear-Powered Vacuum Cleaners Will Probably Be A Reality In 10 Years." - Alex Lewyt, President Of Vacuum Cleaner Company Lewyt Corp., In The New York Times In 1955
David 9 months ago
Having worked in nuclear power, this was an ignorant statement even in 1955. The physics involved would make it impossible in a small portable device. The closest we probably have would be nuclear batteries in satellites where the power consumption is low and there is little need for radiation shielding.
#81
"Stocks Have Reached What Looks Like A Permanently High Plateau." - Irving Fisher, Professor Of Economics, Yale University, 1929, Right Before The 1929 Stock Market Crash
#82
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches? The Quarterly Review, March, 1825.
David 9 months ago
Imagine a real life isekai situation where a person is plucked from the stage coach era and ends up on a high speed bullet train. Or a jet. Air speed is harder to "feel" but getting off a few hours later on a completely different continent would be wild. Even as a modern person, I still think about that when I get a plane in Seattle and get off in Korea. Back when that would have been a weeks long, perilous journey.
M O'Connell 9 months ago
It was absurd because no living person had traveled more than 35mph at the time (on a very fast horse). Shortly after this prediction was made, steam locomotive development advanced rapidly.
#83
Anyone Remember This Forgotten Reality Show?
StrangeOne 9 months ago
Never heard of this one. I would like a follow-up of 'Be Paris' New Best Friend'.
#84
This Is Awkward
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
I think the context and timestamps make it pretty obvious she died in the two hours between the two posts.
Load More Replies... zububonsai 9 months ago (edited)
She died on Sep27 2024.// In the original post (click in the light grey user name "f**k_ur_portmanteau" directly underneath the black pic) is no date but in the comment section there's a "5 months ago" time stamp. Now is Feb2025, so I'm bravely assuming the first comment was posted in the early morning of Sep 27th 2024, then the news of her death came, then the 2nd comment... Makes the most sense, IMHO.
#85
Lebron Just Turned 40 And The F*****y Is Still Ongoing LOL
#86
Well It’s 2025 Now
General Anaesthesia 9 months ago (edited)
Engineers intervened and stabilized the tower (1990 to 2001). Without that it would topple. https://leaningtowerpisa.com/facts/how-pisa-leaning-tower-was-stabilized
#87
What A Dumba*s
#88
Where’s My £1000?
Michael Largey 9 months ago
But Johnson getting Corona was a win for everybody.
Load More Replies... #89
Obama Countdown Clock
David 9 months ago
Just remember, if Romney had won, Trump and Maga would have never come around. The GOP Moderate wing would control the party, etc. Because back to back moderates lost to Obama, Republicans went hard right (the two finalists were Trump over Cruz, with Rubio in third), and also went right in congress and senate, and basically ended up eliminating moderate Republicans. Obama in many ways, destroyed the moderate wing of the GOP, though not on purpose
TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago (edited)
Same happening here in Germany - The government parties ignored the people and as such the right wing party is predicted to be the 2nd strongest party in the upcomming election
Load More Replies...
#90
It’s Not Rigged
#91
That Aged Quickly…
David 9 months ago
And 17 year old me could fill a barn with hay bales without dying. It doesn't change the fact Tyson is 58 and fighting a man half his age as a money grab gimmick.
Load More Replies... #92
Movie Of The Year, Right?
#93
I Was Going Through My Super Old iPod Touch For A Nostalgia Trip When I Found This Scheduled For My Birthday 2020. Yikes
#94
Kids Would Love Drake
#95
Thanks To The La Fires, It Smells Like A BBQ Down Here
Add New Image
Explore more of these tags
What do you think ?
Warren Peece 9 months ago
"In a couple years Apple will go out of business, and that is just sad." ~ Steve Jobs, 1995
Nice Beast Ludo 9 months ago
I read an article in a 1990 issue of a magazine about the future of hotels. It was hilarious.
Warren Peece 9 months ago
"In a couple years Apple will go out of business, and that is just sad." ~ Steve Jobs, 1995
Nice Beast Ludo 9 months ago
I read an article in a 1990 issue of a magazine about the future of hotels. It was hilarious.
You May Like “Die In A Minute”: 125 Times Autocorrect Made A Mess From A Normal Text 41 "Nice Girls" That Got A Reality Check Online For Their Delusional Behavior (New Pics) "No Words": 50 Hilariously Tragic Hair Accidents
Ilona Baliūnaitė
Justinas Keturka
Simona Kinderytė
Related on Bored Panda
