| Straight-line extrapolation | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Ignored second-order effects | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Incentive-shaped forecast | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Right direction, wrong timing | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Underestimated adoption or behaviour change | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Overestimated adoption or behaviour change | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Anchored to the present | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Expert overreach outside their domain | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Genuine black swan | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Ideology over evidence | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Misread base rates | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Ignored local context | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Reasoning and outcomes | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| The Graveyard | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Resurrection Wing | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Right But Early | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Unmarked Graves | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Waiting Room | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Calibration | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original illustration for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 | none |
| Headstone preview: William Miller forecast the literal Second Coming of Christ about 1843; later followers adopted October 22, 1844. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: By 2000, wireless telephone circuits would connect people around the world, including a ship passenger and someone in Chicago. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: By 2000, wild animals would survive only in menageries. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The New York Times editorial suggested successful flying machines might take one million to ten million years to evolve. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: In 1909, Mark Twain expected to die during Halley's Comet's 1910 return. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Irving Fisher said stocks appeared to have reached a permanently high plateau shortly before the 1929 crash. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Bush foresaw encyclopedias organized through associative trails, anticipating hypertext while imagining microfilm memex hardware. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Kennedy set the target of landing an American on the Moon and returning him safely before the decade ended. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Carson warned that continued indiscriminate use of persistent pesticides threatened wildlife through contamination and food-chain effects. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Moore projected economically attractive integrated circuits with about 65,000 components by 1975, roughly annual doubling over ten years. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: USGS endorsed a forecast of a magnitude 5.5–6 Parkfield earthquake during 1985–1993; the underlying study estimated a high probability. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Ballmer dismissed the likelihood of significant iPhone market share, citing its high price and the scale of worldwide phone sales. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Conditional on the proposed recovery package, Romer and Bernstein forecast US unemployment of approximately 7.0% in 2010 Q4. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Silver's final 2012 model gave Barack Obama a 90.9% probability of winning the presidential election. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: At Tesla's 2019 investor event, Musk forecast more than one million robotaxis on the road in 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Trump said the original fifteen US coronavirus patients would soon be down to almost zero, while offering broader reassurance about the outbreak. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: A successful aeroplane would fly and return safely probably before 1950, and certainly long before 2000. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Submarines would be highly limited, largely confined to narrow waters and unable to overturn command of the sea. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: An unknown planet could explain Uranus’s orbital deviations and be found near the calculated sky position. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: For the pea traits studied, hybrid offspring would follow discrete, calculable inheritance ratios rather than permanently blend parental traits. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Continents had once been joined and subsequently moved apart, making measurable horizontal motion a testable consequence. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Exposure to insufficient penicillin doses could select resistant microbes and make later treatment fail. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Around 2000, computers with roughly a billion units of storage could be programmed so average interrogators were at most 70% accurate after five minutes. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: A vote to leave the EU would trigger an immediate recession and raise unemployment over the following two years. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: CPI inflation would rise temporarily to about 4% in the fourth quarter of 2021 before returning toward the 2% target. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Germany would close its remaining commercial nuclear power plants by the end of 2022. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The 2020 global mean temperature would be 0.99–1.23°C above 1850–1900, with a central estimate of 1.11°C. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The EU aimed to vaccinate at least 70% of adults by summer 2021. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission would launch in the July–August 2020 window and reach Mars in March 2021. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Great Britain would win at least 48 Olympic medals across at least 12 sports and finish in the top four at London 2012. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Government policies would bring annual UK net migration down to tens of thousands by the end of the 2010–2015 Parliament. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Policy target: cumulative production and sales of battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles would exceed five million by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Policy target: China would build 30 GW of wind-power capacity by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Policy target: Japan would have approximately 40,000 fuel-cell vehicles cumulatively by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Engineering target: Japan's next-generation supercomputer would offer 10 petaflops of computing performance on completion in 2012. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Mission schedule: Hayabusa would rendezvous with Itokawa in 2005 and return to Earth in June 2007. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Mission schedule: Chang'e-5 would land on the Moon and return with lunar samples in the second half of 2017. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Product launch commitment: Sony would launch PlayStation 3 and new-generation software in spring 2006. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Tourism target: Singapore would attract 17 million annual visitors by 2015. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: National aspiration: Malaysia should become a fully developed country by 2020, across economic, political, social and cultural dimensions. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Public assurance: Thailand hoped to clear its last bird-flu outbreak within one or two days. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Policy expectation: China's total fertility rate would rise to 1.8 births per woman by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Economic forecast: Japan's real GDP would grow approximately 1.4% in fiscal 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Policy target: China would stabilize annual grain output above 600 million tonnes by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Economic forecast: South Korea's real GDP would grow 4.6% in 2010. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Public-health strategy target: Cambodia would eliminate locally transmitted P. falciparum malaria by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Agricultural planning target: Vietnam would produce 41–43 million tonnes of paddy rice in 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: IMD forecast all-India June–September 2019 rainfall at 96% of the long-period average, with ±5 percentage points model error. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: India’s Cabinet committed to 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2022, including 40 GW of rooftop installations. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: ISRO’s launch-day plan stated that Vikram would soft-land in the lunar south-polar region on September 7, 2019. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: After lunar-orbit insertion, ISRO stated that planned braking maneuvers would facilitate a soft landing on August 23, 2023. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Sherry Rehman warned of an overall above-normal monsoon tendency, particularly over Punjab and Sindh, and possible disastrous impacts. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: IMF staff projected Pakistan’s real GDP would contract 1.5% in fiscal year 2020 under the COVID-19 shock. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Sri Lanka’s 2009 Malaria Elimination Project aimed to eliminate indigenous malaria by 2014. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The World Bank’s January 2011 appraisal assumed the Padma road bridge would open in 2015. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: WHO identified Nepal among countries that could eliminate indigenous malaria by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: An Ethiopian embassy article said GERD would start operations in 2016 and be fully completed in 2017. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Tullow’s November 2009 operational update forecast Jubilee first oil in the fourth quarter of 2010. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Tullow reaffirmed first oil from Ghana’s TEN fields in mid-2016 after an April 2015 tribunal order allowed development to continue. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: South Africa’s Science and Technology department said construction of SKA1’s additional antennas would commence in 2018. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: IMF staff forecast South African GDP growth would recover to 0.8% in 2020 under current policies. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Kenya’s meteorological service forecast enhanced October–December 2023 rainfall across the country, with higher probabilities in the east. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: WHO’s 2016 analysis judged Cabo Verde among countries capable of reaching zero indigenous malaria cases by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Mayor Patricia de Lille said Day Zero on April 21, 2018 was very likely, assuming high-consuming residents would not change behavior. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: IPC projected famine in Baidoa and Burhakaba and among displaced people in Baidoa for October–December 2022 under assumed assistance levels. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The IEA central outlook projected Iraq's oil production to more than double from 3 million barrels a day by 2020. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: After its final course correction, UAE leaders announced that Hope would arrive at Mars on 9 February 2021. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: ENEC's September 2014 indicative timetable put Barakah Unit 1's commercial operation in 2017. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Herzl privately forecast that within fifty years people would recognise that the Basel Congress had founded a Jewish state. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The IMF forecast Lebanon's real GDP growth in 2020 at -12%. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The IMF forecast Yemen's real GDP growth in 2020 at -3%. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The IMF forecast Saudi Arabia's real GDP growth in 2020 at -2.3%. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The IMF forecast Qatar's real GDP growth in 2020 at -4.3%. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The IMF forecast United Arab Emirates's real GDP growth in 2020 at -3.5%. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The IMF projected Israel's economic growth to slow to about 2.5% in 2023. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Jean Macnamara advocated testing myxomatosis as a means of controlling Australia's rabbits in 1934 and continued pressing after failures. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Bull and Mules concluded in 1944 that myxomatosis offered little promise under most natural Australian conditions, while allowing temporary control with abundant insect vectors. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: In February 2021, the RBA did not expect the inflation and employment conditions for a cash-rate increase before 2024. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: On 3 June 2014 the Bureau's El Niño alert indicated at least a 70% chance of El Niño developing during 2014. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: In May 2015 the Bureau's model summary forecast tropical Pacific temperatures to remain above El Niño thresholds through the forecast period. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: New Zealand Treasury's May 2020 Budget forecast put June-quarter unemployment at 8.3%. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The comets of 1531, 1607 and 1682 were one object that would return in 1758. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: General relativity permits gravitational waves: propagating disturbances produced by changing mass distributions. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: A previously unobserved anti-electron should have the electron’s mass and the opposite charge. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Beta decay emits a light, electrically neutral particle carrying the otherwise missing energy. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a gauge theory should leave a physical scalar boson associated with the mass-generating field. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: The medium projection put world population in 2000 at 6.28 billion. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Hundreds of millions would starve in the 1970s despite emergency efforts, and the world death rate would rise substantially. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Within the essay’s fifty-year horizon, edible animal parts could be grown separately in a suitable medium. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Extracting a useful power source from atomic transformations was an unrealistic expectation. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Business-as-usual emissions would produce roughly 0.3°C global warming per decade, with substantial uncertainty. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Scenario B projected continued global warming under reduced but continuing trace-gas growth. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: With assumed ultimate world petroleum resources of 1,250 billion barrels, production would peak around 2000. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: the world market would need only about five computers. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: 640 kilobytes of memory would be enough for anybody indefinitely. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: everything inventable had already been invented, so the Patent Office should close. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: television would lose its audience after six months as viewers tired of the set. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed memo: the telephone had no practical communication value for Western Union. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: rapid rail travel would suffocate passengers. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: physics had no new discoveries left, only more precise measurements. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Attributed claim: humanity would disappear within four years if bees vanished. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| Headstone preview: Reported claim: there was no reason for an individual to have a computer at home. | Aniruddh Jangid, 2026 | Original headstone preview for The Prediction Graveyard | CC BY 4.0 for original design; source quotations retain original rights | rendered from the entry text |
| World atlas — light mode | Natural Earth contributors; Survey of India, SOI outline metadata: 2026 | Natural Earth world locator with Survey of India outline | Natural Earth: public domain. India outline: Government of India copyright; educational/website use, no commercial use | reprojected SOI outline, simplified with topology preservation, clipped neighbouring polygons, shaded by archive count |
| World atlas — dark mode | Natural Earth contributors; Survey of India, SOI outline metadata: 2026 | Natural Earth world locator with Survey of India outline | Natural Earth: public domain. India outline: Government of India copyright; educational/website use, no commercial use | reprojected SOI outline, simplified with topology preservation, clipped neighbouring polygons, shaded by archive count |
