The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Predictions

by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Irving Wallace

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

544 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1980

About the author

David Wallechinsky is an American populist historian and television commentator, the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the founder and editor-in-chief of AllGov.com.

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

I spent many, many hours as a kid devouring this book, imagining what the world might be like in the near and distant future. It was fun to learn how wrong predictions often are, and how scarily right a few of them are. I like to return to the book every now and then to see how many of these predictions have turned out.

This book taught me several things, some opposite of each other: the value of conservative predictions based on present-day conditions, and also the personal enrichment from stretching the imagination with wild, way-out-there predictions. After all, many of the modern inventions of the last 150 years came out of bold, sometimes outlandish imaginings. This book was like protein for a hungry mind.

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe my favorite of the People's Almanac books. Minneapolis will be capital of the United States by 1999!

[Cole Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hindsight had me laughing.

[Amanda Ure · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun but ultimately a little disappointing. It covers a very wide range of material, including actual predictions by various figures, articles on famous "oracles" such as Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus, seriously mistaken predictions, personal predictions, science fiction predictions and unusual methods of divination, among other things. Almost all of the predictions have turned out to be wrong, but there are one or two experts who were completely on the nose.

The basic problem with the book is that the "experts", rather than actually trying to predict things, have often used their opportunity to grind their own axes and make points about their personal beliefs.

This is from the same stable as the great books of lists and People's Almanac.

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1985. They may be going to the well one too many times on this series.

[Chloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

While it’s a little sad how optimistic some of these people were, there were also many people who predicted the world would’ve already ended by now so…

[Jason Vedder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read or half read. A predictors first way off base claim, eventually made me skip the rest of their predictions. Most or all of these predictions were just silly, wrong and more wishful thinking/worst case scenarios. Maybe the prediction of the internet is there sorta.So the predictions might be 2% right or close. Information from psychics and such was worthless. What I thought would be a humoress read (in 1999 Minneapolis, Mn will become the capital of the United States, that sort of thing), turned out to be not that fun or funny. Didn't care for it. And I read and reread the other Book of Lists long ago, so thats why I snatched this book up. I predicted it would be a good read. I was incorrent