100 Failed Predictions (Sjolander's 100) Kindle Edition

We humans are an impatient species. Instead of waiting, we constantly try to peek into the future. These attempts have not always been successful. And that is putting it mildly. As the title says, this book is a collection of 100 failed predictions, uttered by high and low and about everything between heaven and earth. Here the reader will learn how bright Iraq’s future was in 1977, how little chance the iPhone would stand on the world market, how hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1980s, how a certain “Usama bin Laden” was on the road to peace, how Communism would triumph, of how loyal American colonists were in the 1770s, and how the world would end on the 21st of March 1844.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And as our attempts to predict the future shows, we humans are not very good at remembering the failures of our past.