At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong – from the end of the world due to climate change, to "the telephone is just a toy." (There is a story, probably apocryphal, that in 1876, the President of Western Union, William Orton, dismissed phones as a “toy” when Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell him the patent for $100,000).
At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong – from the end of the world due to climate change, to the telephone is just a toy.