Eugen: "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." - Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. etc.
Nice list. Just one prob. - my guess is that for every such naysaying prophesy you could find five from overhopeful inventors prophesying that their invention would conquer the world & in the next n years. Turing? Minsky? Lenat? ... Not trying to be negative - just point out that life's complicated.
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