Here is a website about the top 87 bad predictions about the future. My brother posted this on his blog and I thought it was interesting.

Here are some intriguing ones

"It will be gone by June."
Variety, passing judgmentnt on rock 'n roll in 1955

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone."
Charles Darwin, in the foreword to his book, The Origin of Species, 1869.

"... good enough for our transatlantic friends ... but unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men."
British Parliamentary Committee, referring to Edison’s light bulb, 1878.

"It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere."
Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1895.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.