History’s WORST Predictions — Explained in 11 Minutes

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History’s WORST Predictions — Explained in 11 Minutes Here are the are some of the worst predictions ever made in history and how spectacularly wrong they turned out to be. Let me know in the comments which prediction YOU 🫵 think is the dumbest of them all or if I missed some. Timestamps: 0:01 The Gun So Terrible It Would End War – Richard Gatling (1860s) 1:33 London Will Drown in Horse Manure – The Times (1894) 3:12 Man Will Not Fly for a Million Years – The New York Times (1903) 4:42 Nuclear Energy Will Never Be Practical – Albert Einstein (1934) 6:15 The Beatles Have No Future in Show Business – Decca Records (1962) 7:21 No One Will Watch a Movie About Space – 20th Century Fox (1970s) 8:41 Titanic Is Unsinkable – Captain Edward Smith / Press (1912) 9:43 The Internet Will Be No More Important Than the Fax Machine – Paul Krugman (1998)

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