In 1555, Nostradamus published his famous Les Prophéties containing obfuscated prophecies for the world to come. Some believe that one of these predictions pertains to the year 2020 and it reads, in part: “The false trumpet concealing madness / will cause Byzantium to change its laws.” Yeah… I have no idea what that means either!

In 1966 the late Arthur C. Clarke, a famous science fiction writer, predicted that we would have flying houses and be able to relocate on a whim by 2001. Well, we missed that one!