Over time, people have enjoyed predicting the future. The consequences of this are both eerily precise and utterly ridiculous! So, let's see some of the best in both categories. To begin, we will look at the wildly inaccurate quotes: In 1876, William Orton, the President of Western Union, had stated: “This telephone contains too many shortcomings to seriously consider it as a means of communication.” 13 years later, in 1889, Thomas Edison had decided that “fooling around with alternating...