Here at Paleofuture, we love failed predictions. It’s kind of our bread and butter. But shockingly, some of the failed predictions being passed around on the internet are often misleading, frequently taken out of context, or sometimes completely fabricated. Fake quotes on the internet? Unbelievable, I know . But today we have seven predictions you may have seen recently as examples of “bad predictions.” They sound too good to be true. And that’s because they are. 1) “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the US patent office in 1899 This is perhaps the most popular “failed prediction” of our age. I think it’s now technically illegal to make a Powerpoint presentation about business innovation without this quote in your first slide. The only problem? It’s totally fake. There’s no evidence that Duell ever said it. It gets debunked from time to time in books like Future Hype (2006) and Atomic Aw...