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Can we compile better lists of false predictions?
With some of them, it's not clear whether they were even intended as predictions; they may have been intended as statements about the technology at the time. Taken in that sense, they may have been true:
Was there much demand for computers as they existed in 1943?
There's also the problem that some of the claims may not have been intended as claims about what will happen, but about what should happen. For example, the Darwin quote:
That doesn't entail people's religious sensibilities won't be shocked for bad reasons.
Also, these lists don't cite their sources very well.