Prophet FAIL

Well, it's another day. Feels the same as yesterday, even though it's a Monday. This was all explained in yesterday's post. I shall be spending today in the library, working on my essays due Friday, so as to clear up more time for studying for my Thursday final. Yep, it will be a fun-filled week.

I will try to keep posting, but I can't guarantee being able to update the blog every single day. But I will try... as I just said in the previous sentence.

Earlier today, I read quite the entertaining article. If you don't want to read it, it's about the top "15 Failed Predictions about the Future." It gives a number of different out-of-context predictions various people have made regarding the future. It makes the people look rather silly, and/or stupid either because they were proved wrong, or they could not have possibly been more wrong with their guess. Here's what I have to say all of this:

If there's any chance
Of something, don't act so sure
When predicting it


Seriously, if there is even the slightest offchance of something occurring in the future, don't say that it will never happen, because it just might happen, and you just might look like a moron. For instance, Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943 claimed that "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Fantastic premonition. He's practically a prophet. And it's good to know that Watson had high hopes for his company.

Another prediction was made by a non-famous person, but it's funny nonetheless. A random Boeing engineer said "There will never be a bigger plane built" in reference to a 10-seat plane. If there's one thing I know about predictions, it's that you never, ever say "there will never be" in reference to a record, because there will almost always be. For instance, If I said something like "there will never be a 5G network." This is on par with that other statement, because, like the number of seats in a plane constantly increases, the generation of phone networks does.

Now, I will make a couple of predictions of my own regarding the future, which are sure to be right.

There will never be a female president.
There will never be a Jewish president.
There will never be a dragon-man president.
There will never be another you (this is the name of a jazz standard, if you didn't get the reference).
Bob Woodward will never die (really, he's immortal)
By 2022 every man, woman, and dog (2025 for children) will have an iPhone. Even in Africa.
Soon enough, cell phones will have webcams, and no car accidents will ever result from them.

There you have it. Keep all of those predictions in mind in the upcoming years, and when all of them come true (even though saying something such as that has no expiration date on it, and as such can never come true), I can say "I told you so." And of course, they definitely won't be wrong.