87 bad predictions about the future. Irving Fisher,

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posted Nov 7 @ 06:37 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link

87 bad predictions about the future. Irving Fisher, economics professor at Yale University, in 1929:

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

And Variety, passing judgement on rock ‘n roll in 1955:

It will be gone by June.