100 Days of Failed Prophecies.
Doomsdays That Never Came, Absurd Predictions, and Certainties Swept Away by History
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The year 1000 came and went. So did Y2K, the Mayan calendar of 2012, and dozens of other end times announced with total certainty — and here we still are. History is crowded with confident prophets whose predictions shattered against reality.
This book turns that record into 100 short, funny, unsettling stories: a second-century sect waiting in a Phrygian field for a city to descend from the sky, studio executives certain that talking pictures would never catch on, experts explaining that the internet was a passing fad. Doomsdays postponed, absurd forecasts, scientific certainties swept away.
The laughs come with a lesson in humility. Each entry takes a few minutes and asks the same question underneath: why do we love predicting the future so much, and why are we almost always wrong?
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