Predictions gone wrong

Think. Write. Lead. - Issue #114. In defense of a rationalist approach to thought leadership.

Dan Brown (the author of The Da Vinci Code) has an entertaining novel with a prediction gone wrong.

Inferno’s plot is about the threat of overpopulation destroying the planet.

It plays out from Paul Ehrlich's book, The Population Bomb (1968), which predicted massive shortages of food and resources from overpopulation by the end of the 20th century.

The Un…