While I did not do so with this list, its been my experience that if you googled up the context these predictions were made in, you would generally find the context significantly contradicts the 'cut-and-dry' framing of the predictions- especially those made by noted well-educated experts in a particular relevant field. These things are usually fun to trot out and chuckle over... in the way that we all take pleasure in a mis-step by an expert be it in sports, politics or intellectual pursuits. But typically, if someone is bright and well-read enough to make a mark on society such that society remembers his name, they are usually bright enough not to make sweeping unqualified predictions of the the negative case (IE, that thing X is worthless and will never be used).

Of course, there are indeed exceptions- however, its best to always read these assemblages of quotes with a 5lb bag of salt.

Yeti