PREDICTIONS THAT WERE TOTALLY OFF-BASE....in a very BIG WAY...

Variety magazine, 1955 Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On the Origin of Species, 1859 Economist Irving Fisher in October 1929, three days before the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression   A Decca Records executive to the band's manager, Brian Epstein, following an audition in 1962. He continued: "We don't like your boys' sound. Groups are out. Four-piece groups with guitars, particularly, are finished."   Time magazine, 1968   John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of the Future, 1936   Margaret Thatcher, Oct. 26, 1969   Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of radio, writing in Technical World magazine, October 1912   Kaiser Wilhelm II to German troops at the outset of World War One, August 1914   Surgeon General of the United States William H. Stewart, speaking to the U.S. Congress in 1969   Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861   Dr. Dionysys Larder, science writer and academic, in 1828   Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923   New York Times, 1936   Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, in InfoWorld magazine, December 1995   The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company, 1903   William Orton, president of Western Union, in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the company his invention   Charlie Chaplin in 1916, two years into his big-screen acting career. The rest of the quote: "It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.   An aide to British military commander Field Marshal Haig wrote this in a report following a tank demonstration, 1916   Thomas Edison, 1889. The lightbulb inventor insisted his own direct current (DC) system was superior to competitor George Westinghouse's AC power, and took every opportunity to discredit alternating current   Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948   Byte magazine editor Edmund DeJesus, 1998   Alan Sugar, 2005   Popular Mechanics, 1949   Sci-if writer Bruce Sterling in The New York Times, 2007   Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007