As I watched my neighbor drive away in their Tesla, I realized that the wholesale slaughter of pedestrians due to their lack of engine noise seems to not have happened. What other predicted problems ended up being a non-issue?
First thing I thought of when I read the title was Y2K. Sure, it gave us the film Entrapment, but there were no nuclear missles going off, no bank failures, nobody thinking it was the year 0. Pretty tame.
Lots of people predicted “out-of-control gun battles in the streets” if concealed carry laws were passed.
Didn’t happen.
I don’t hear much about killer bees these days.
The murder hornets have a better agent.
That’s funny.
I was going to mention them. I remember when there were articles following their relentless march north, and the catastrophe that awaited the US…
Well, they are here, and pretty well established (all wild honeybee colonies are assumed to be Africanized out here, since they out-compete European bees). They kill a few pets and maybe a person or two every year, but you get used to it…
It is what it is.
Yeah, and here I was thinking that only zombies get used to getting killed every year.
I remember that when the Large Hadron Collider was powered up for the first time, it was going to create a black hole and we’d all get sucked into it.
We are approaching the 33rd anniversary of my favorite disaster that never materialized: 16 -17 August 1987… the Harmonic Convergence.
It was hilarious; people all around the world were actually worried it was going to destroy the planet.
hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com is still operational. I wonder if there’s a code condition for ‘YEP’ 
Maybe not what the OP means, but I did some reading last night for fun about the averted 1999 Providence airport collision. On a foggy night, an un-listening air traffic controller twice cleared a US Airways airliner to take off when a United jet was blocking the runway and complaining to the un-listening controller that he was, in fact, still on the runway. The US Airways crew wisely refused to take off despite the controller’s urging, demanding that the United jet’s whereabouts be known with certainty first.
Y2K comes immediately to mind. BTW has there been a good book after the event which examines the issue in detail? I recall two schools of thought: one which said that the problem was overblown the whole time and the second which says that it was precisely the preventive work done which successfully minimized any issues.
Given the enormous sums spend by both governments and corporations around the world it’s important to figure out which side has the better case.
Both are true. The problems were overblown and the actual problems were minimized by the preventive work, Plus millions upon millions were spent just to be extra careful looking for non-existent over-blown problems. Every industry could benefit from a fictional disaster that drives investment like that.
I remember when Global Cooling in the 1970s was predicting Ice-ball Earth. Some of those climate scientists were the same ones who now talk about Global Warming.
No they aren’t.
They are now talking about Climate Change, things evolve as we understand more. Some people just can’t seem to grasp that. Or they do understand and live to cause confusion. Much like the COVID-19 deniers and mask usage.
That makes no sense.
Are you really claiming that none of them changed their minds? Or that they all died before Global Warming became the current dogma? Or erasing it from history, denying that it was ever a thing?
I remember stopping for gas back 2011 and glancing up at a Harold Camping billboard having no idea who this yahoo was.