Biggest Gaffes/Predictions in History.

[give it to gordon]

Cant remember who said it but it was one of those, the world will end tomorrow. I put 100quid on that at the bookies.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Cant remember who said it but it was one of those, the world will end tomorrow. I put 100quid on that at the bookies.

....and ??

 

[give it to gordon]

....and ??

I lost the bet ! But if I had won ;)

 

[leithblue]

Daily Mail with the quality journalism we’ve come to expect...

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

And after Gillingham scored the second goal - "That's game over!"

 

[shemnel]

Science fiction is rich picking for futuristic predictions, stuff like credit cards being foreseen in the late 1800s, and various forms of mobiles, iPads, smart phones etc etc, in various weird guises over the last 120 years or so. I think the notion of handheld convenience wasn't completely unbelievable, so my favourite goes to Huxley's overall prediction and description of totalitarian government through technology and mindless distraction.

 

[lancs blue]

alan ball: "Buster Phillips will be a £10m player"

 

[talkativesprout]

Hover cars by the year 2000 - Talkativesprout 1988 (he also predicted the demise in the use of cash and money would go totally digital) so he could yet pull 1 back in injury time

 

[JRockBlues]

 

[kippaxwarrior]

The US government spent $8.4B to combat the Y2K bug

The bug never materialized.