Top 7 Future Predictions About World that Failed

The world, today, will soon be a past in the future. We are obsessed with the future although we live in the past. We are not alone, people all around the world have predicted a world that never came into being.

Here are the top 7 predictions made by famous personalities that proved wrong:

1. Nikita Khrushchev (1958):

We Will burry you.

Soviet Premiere Khrushchev once predicted that Soviet Communism will win over the US capitalism.

2. Albert Einstein (1932)

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

3. Margaret Thatcher (1969)

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.

4. Herman Goering (German Commander) 1942

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing.

5. Tommy Franks (The US General) 2003

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destructions. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found.

6. Irving Fisher (Professor at Yale University) 1929

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high-plateau.

7. Bill Gates (1989)

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

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