{"id":5909,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/audacious-predictions\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:12","slug":"audacious-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/audacious-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDACIOUS\n  PREDICTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Authority; Bible; Future; Prophecy<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Deuteronomy 18:21\u201322; 1 Peter 1:23\u201325; 2 Peter 1:21<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Some of the worst predictions of all time:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cInventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.\u201d Said by Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus in AD 100.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.\u201d Said by John Eric Ericksen, surgeon to Queen Victoria in 1873.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cLaw will be simplified. Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed.\u201d Said by journalist Junius Henri Browne in 1893.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what he does; he will never amount to anything.\u201d Said by Albert Einstein\u2019s teacher in 1895.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cIt would appear we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology.\u201d Said by computer scientist John von Neumann in 1949.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe Japanese don\u2019t make anything the people in the U.S. would want.\u201d Said by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in 1954.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cNuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.\u201d Said by Alex Lewyt, president of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company in 1955.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBefore man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.\u201d Said by Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General, in 1959.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBy the turn of the century, we will live in a paperless society.\u201d Said by Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cI predict the Internet \u2026 will go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.\u201d Said by Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld, in 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Laura Lee, \u201cForecasts That Missed by a Mile,\u201d <i>The Futurist<\/i> (September\u2013October 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Authority; Bible; Future; Prophecy References: Deuteronomy 18:21\u201322; 1 Peter 1:23\u201325; 2 Peter 1:21 Some of the worst predictions of all time: \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cInventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.\u201d Said by Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus in AD 100. \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe abdomen, the chest, and the brain will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/audacious-predictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AUDACIOUS<br \/>\n  PREDICTIONS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}