The Worst Predictions in History

The Guardian has a fun articlereviewing thebook Historys Worst Predictions. Key quote:

“As a new book, Historys Worst Predictions, by Eric Chaline, shows, everyone from ancient prophets to modern futurologists have, more often than not, got the future spectacularly wrong.”

I really like the articles (and the books) comparison of modern futures techniques to those used during the Roman Empire:

“Futurologists now use complex computer models to make predictions but, as Chaline puts it, computers are often no better at discerning the future than “a sheep with a peculiarly shaped liver”.

Computer models may not be more accurate, but theyre a lot less messy.