The internet will never catch on - who would be willing to wait for things to update that long? As it grows the backbone will collapse.
Lois and Clark will fail in 3 weeks (it lasted 4 years.)
Titanic will be a flop.
Michael Keaton as Batman will suck (he was the best so far.)
How about you?
That within two years of Bush being elected, we would be immersed in a war and the economy would be in ruins…oh wait…
Everquest would crash and burn.
X-Box would go nowhere.
My computer would be payed off before it was essentially useless. 
Well, I don’t know if this was a “prediction,” but it definitely qualifies as a stupid pronouncement.
Back in 1981, my favorite football team, the Giants, had the 2nd overall pick in the draft. Their defense was already excellent, and had what was generally regarded as the best crew of linebackers in the NFL (led by Harry Carson). Their offense, however, was horrible. And like most Giants fans, I was hoping they could land running back George Rogers, who’d just won the Heisman Trophy.
The Saints took Rogers with the first overall pick. Sigh. Oh well, there were still plenty of offensive stars to choose from. So, who’d the Giants pick? A LINEBACKER, for crying out loud! I called George Young an idiot, questioned his sanity, and stated categorically that the Giants would never get any better.
Oh, the linebacker? Some guy from North Carolina. I forget his name, but his initials were LT.
The 2003 Mets will be make the postseason. Mo Vaugh will have a much improved year; his knee is all better now. Cliff Floyd is a quality starter that we can plug into LF on Opening Day and not have to worry about the position all year. Even Roger Cedeño will regress to the mean and be better – and he’s certainly able to pick up the CF duties.
When I heard that Michael Jackson had married Lisa Marie Presley, I predicted that it would turn out to be a hoax.
When I heard that Michael Jackson had been stopped by the police after shopping at Walmart with a mask on, I predicted that the story would turn out to be a hoax.
So my M.J. prediction average is not good.
I also, seriously, believe that he is not a child molestor.
Someone described to me the very first web browser, Mosaic. I thought it was just another hypertext thing that wouldn’t catch on.
When I actually saw it in action, I though it would be popular with the computer crowd, but that’s it.
In the 90’s I almost invested in some .com companies. They’re cool, they’ll have to do well!
“Voting for Nader will not prevent Gore from winning, but will initiate a third party into the American political system.”
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHH!! :smack:
Early in 1999, I predicted that Apple would go bankrupt because of all the “low priced” PCs that were coming on the market. Later that year, the I-Mac came out.
:smack:
Here in Minnesota we have the Mall Of America, the largest single enclosed retail space in the US, and the second largest in North America. The developers got some big breaks on the deal, including the land once occupied by the venerable Met Stadium. My reaction was “Yeah right, a government handout to build more retail outlets in a saturated market. They oughtta call it the Fall Of America!”
It’s been wildly successful.
Oh, and initially I supported Gulf War II 
The Colorado Avalanche will win the 2004 Stanley Cup.
:smack:
I’ll never stick with SDMB for 200 posts.
In 8th grade (1981) when my math teacher was extolling the virtues of the Personal Computer, and how someday everyone would have one, I totally didn’t get it. I could see no reason why anyone would want one, certainly not ordinary people who weren’t mathematicians or engineers. People would do what? Balance their checkbooks on them? So what? Why would anyone care?
About 5 years ago, I predicted the tech stock crash would happen between March and June of 2000. So far so good. The bad part was I thought it was going to take out only the Mom&Pop web sites, the stupider Internet companies, etc. Surely the Ciscos, IBMs and such would actually prosper as a result of the cruft falling away. Bet my job on it. Ooops.
If you want another tech prediction: Sun is Dead. Capital “D” dead. Also, every company setting up shops in India is going to get bitten back by those very same people when they set up their own shops doing the same thing they used to do for the American companies. This off-shoring will go down in American business history as the biggest mistake ever.
(And don’t get me started on politics. I never imagined that people would actually vote for Nixon, Reagan, Bush II, Ahnuld, etc. No one ever went broke …)
My terrible prediction is immortalized forever here on the internet (well as forever as the internet is)
On jumptheshark.com under Malcolm in the Middle. I’m the guy who praises the show and proclaims it won’t last a season. It’s in the first 10 or so comments on the show.
The day of the 2000 presidential election I had a conversation with my then-girlfriend about fortunetelling. I told her that it wasn’t so much a matter of not believing in it for me, but that I wasn’t particularly curious to hear predictions of the future. “We’ll know when it happens.”
She mostly agreed, but added that she was eager to know how who our next president would be.
“Yeah, but we’ll all know by tomorrow morning!” I said. Which certainly shows that I can’t predict the future!
Disney will NEVER put Snow White on home video.
I thought for sure that “Survivor” was going to be a bomb.
Malcome in the Middle would be a God-awfull show that would bomb the first week. Not my fault I made such a prediction, the previews for the show were awfull and very not funny.
Good show though.
I thought Saddam wouldn’t be taken alive.
Until a few months before it happened, I doubted we’d go to war against Iraq again. For some reason, I thought all the “axis of evil” talk, saber-rattling, and military build-up in the Gulf were an effort to force Hussein into complying with the UN’s restrictions on WMD and prevent him from causing trouble while we took care of things in Afghanistan. After all, we had our hands full with what was going on in that country so why would we also want to take on the task of toppling Saddam and reconstructing Iraq? Unfortunately, I was dead wrong.