Antes, parecia tudo tão diferente!

E agora, para algo nunca visto no 9-9, uma lista!

Efectuar previsões não é uma tarefa simples. E se há dúvidas sobre isso, uma consulta às Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future torna fácil perceber como por vezes as pessoas são capazes de ter opiniões que anos mais tarde se transformam em perfeitos disparates.

9 erros de destaque:

# «It will be gone by June.»
Variety, passing judgement on rock 'n roll in 1955.

# «In all likelihood world inflation is over.»
International Monetary Fund Ceo, 1959.

# «That virus is a pussycat.» -– Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular-biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, on HIV, 1988.

# «The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad.»
The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903.

# «The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?»
Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter's call for investment in the radio in 1921.

# «A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere.»
New York Times, 1936.

# «A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls this instrument a telephone. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires.»
News item in a New York newspaper, 1868.

# «Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.»
Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.

# «Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.»
Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London.

Não foi nada fácil fazer a escolha, há muitos erros monumentais na lista... o futuro é uma caixinha de surpresas!