{"id":579447,"date":"2023-01-06T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/01\/06\/famous-predictions-from-the-past-that-backfired-or-came-true\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T07:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:00:14","slug":"famous-predictions-from-the-past-that-backfired-or-came-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/01\/06\/famous-predictions-from-the-past-that-backfired-or-came-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous predictions from the past that backfired or came true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While prophesying may give us some sense of control over our fate, it can often <\/strong><strong>be a fool\u2019s errand.<\/strong> Writers, critics and scientists are often eager to give their two cents as to what the future holds, but how many of these predictions from the past have come true? Here\u2019s a round-up of some entertaining prophecies and critiques that either fell flat or surprisingly hit the bull\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TV will render future generations illiterate:<\/strong> Before social media was deemed the root of all evil, television was the culprit. In July 1951, three years into the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/television-in-the-United-States#ref283600\">Golden Age of Television<\/a>, station WOR-TV<a href=\"https:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/subscriber\/article\/0,33009,815167,00.html\">gathered the predictions of TV critics<\/a> on the future of TV and<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.eg\/books?id=fh8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=station wor-tv predictions copper box&source=bl&ots=MDSjVVlRnO&sig=ACfU3U2OjxG7-5jkZDet7Q9qY88gAMw7EQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuyPLzp4H8AhUExYUKHafiDAcQ6AF6BAgqEAM#v=onepage&q=station wor-tv predictions copper box&f=false\">sealed them shut in a radiation-proof time capsule<\/a> to be unearthed 100 years later. \u201cOur people are becoming less literate by the minute,\u201d one critic protested, \u201cby the 21st Century our people doubtless will be squint-eyed, hunchbacked and fond of the dark,\u201d she lamented. Thankfully, the editor\u2019s prediction missed the mark and you\u2019re scrolling through our issue today. If anything, research has shown that watching TV in moderation can be<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/1468798407087162\">beneficial for children\u2019s reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obomi, the EU, and Viagra: <\/strong>In his awardwinning 1968 novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stand-Zanzibar-Hugo-Award-Winning-Novel\/dp\/0765326787\">Stand on Zanzibar<\/a>, John Brunner depicts a dystopian world set in 2010. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20190509-the-1968-sci-fi-that-spookily-predicted-today\">classic of New Wave sci-fi<\/a>, the futurama foretold a slew of modern realities with uncanny prescience. Perhaps one of the most amusing things it got right is a character named President Obomi. While Brunner\u2019s character headed a fictional African state named Beninia, he was only two letters amiss, but hit the mark on time: Barack Obama served as US president from 2009 to 2017. Brunner also prophesied that the world\u2019s population would reach 7 bn by 2010 \u2014 only a year earlier than it really<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/roberthart\/2022\/11\/15\/worlds-population-reaches-8-billion-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/?sh=776cc6576232\">happened<\/a> \u2014 and<a href=\"https:\/\/interestingliterature.com\/2020\/11\/brunner-stand-on-zanzibar-review-analysis\/#:~:text=However, it was set in,this happened in October 2011.\">foresaw<\/a> the European Union, legal marijuana, satellite news, and Viagra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wireless technology will result in mobile phones: <\/strong>Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla was not only the ingenious inventor behind the electric alternating-current system that powers the world as we now know it, but also an insightful<a href=\"https:\/\/rossdawson.com\/futurist\/best-futurists-ever\/best-futurists-ever-nikola-tesla-electrifying-predictions\/\">futurist<\/a> who made a host of accurate predictions. In a 1909<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.eg\/books?id=nN8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA476&vq=tesla&pg=PA476&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false\">interview<\/a> with the New York Times, Tesla foresaw that \u201cit will soon be possible\u2026to call from [one\u2019s] desk and talk with any telephone subscriber in the world. It will only be necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument no bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of thousands of miles.\u201d An impressive prophecy considering the pinnacle of wireless technology was the telegraph at that time. His prediction may have been correct, but little did he know many of these devices would actually break the bank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beatles will be a flop:<\/strong> In what is likely one of the most regrettable decisions in music history, Decca Records turned down offering the Fab Four a record contract in January 1962, proclaiming \u201cguitar groups are on the way out\u201d and \u201cthe Beatles have no future in show business.\u201d The Ed Sullivan Show\u2019s musical director Ray Bloch had an equally myopic vision, dismissing the Beatles\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/08\/nyregion\/the-beatles-debut-on-ed-sullivan.html\">debut live appearance on American television<\/a> as nothing more than a few great heads of hair, famously saying: \u201cI give them a year.\u201d Of course, the Beatles went on to become one of the most influential bands of all time, forever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundoflife.com\/blogs\/mixtape\/6-ways-the-beatles-changed-the-world-of-music-forever\">changing the world of music<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While prophesying may give us some sense of control over our fate, it can often be a fool\u2019s errand. 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