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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @ContraMundum5 17 Mar \ parent \ on: Can Name Some Failed Predictions that Keep Being Repeated Over and Over Again? Politics_And_Law

There are also a ton of analogous predictions for pretty much every other mineral and metal. I remember a section on this in my undergrad geography class and knowing at the time how dumb it was. Guess what? We haven't run out of any of those materials, despite increasing our rate of consumption.

99 sats \ 4 replies \ @ContraMundum5 17 Mar

Another one that comes to mind is the “Y2K bug.” We were all told that when the year 2000 hit, computers would crash, planes would fall out of the sky, and chaos would ensue. It was such a big deal, and then… nothing happened. Yet, people still remember the panic around it, even though it turned out to be much ado about nothing.

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 17 Mar

Y2K was a big one.

It was over-hyped and largely fixed before it caused any issues.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 18 Mar

I heard it would have been a big issue but only wasn’t because people worked tirelessly that it wouldn’t be. Not sure which version is true.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 17 Mar

Maybe there was just a lag, because planes seem to be falling out of the sky now.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ContraMundum5 17 Mar

Haha. True. But I think they’ve always been falling, just never reported as much.