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History's Worst Predictions and the People Who Made Them Eric Chaline

History's Worst Predictions and the People Who Made Them By Eric Chaline

History's Worst Predictions and the People Who Made Them by Eric Chaline


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A light-hearted look at fifty of the grandest predictions ever made - and how they proved to be spectacularly wrong.

History's Worst Predictions and the People Who Made Them Summary

History's Worst Predictions and the People Who Made Them by Eric Chaline

It is said that one of the things that sets us apart from the other animals is our ability to conceive of the future. Since the dawn of history, human civilisation has had its prophets, but whether they claim divine inspiration, employ scientific forecasting or economic modelling, or just use their own fertile imaginations, what they have in common is the ability to get things spectacularly wrong. Organised chronologically, History's Worst Predictions excavates the strata of history to expose the rich veins of absurdity that are humanity's prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life - religion, politics, science, economy, culture and war - has provided material for the most far-fetched and inaccurate of predictions. And the one area where forecasters have got it most consistently wrong is technology: there is not one major invention, from the railroad to the personal computer, that has not been written off as impossible, dangerous or uneconomic. Last but not least are the innumerable prophecies of the End of the World - the religious (Second Comings, Raptures, Armageddons); the natural (comet strikes, killer planetary alignments, rapid ice ages); and the manmade (nuclear annihilation, overpopulation, ecological collapse).

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GOR003412943
9780752459622
0752459627
History's Worst Predictions and the People Who Made Them by Eric Chaline
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The History Press Ltd
20110501
256
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