13 Failed Predictions That Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong

Did you ever have those positive-thinking musclemen come to your school when you were a kid, telling you to be a “dream maker” not a “dream breaker” before tearing phone books in half? Well, in their own insane way, they were really onto something. Throughout history, some of the world’s biggest innovations have been scoffed at as being an impossibility or simply a passing fancy. The electric light bulb? Automobiles?