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"I heard about the Apple Watch recently and was going to check it out—but not now. It can't even transmit or input data. ☯93JAN"

Prescient.



Some of them a bit less clairvoyant about the future:

"The actual date for the end of the world is July 5, 1998. ☯92NOV"

It is interesting how many were accurate or onto something. I just didn't expect it.

edit: Found this gem after wasting more time that I cared to.

"I think the future of personal communications holds great things in store for us, but privacy won't be one those things. ☯94AUG"


July 5, 1998 is "X-Day", from the Church of Subgenius. It actually happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Day_%28Church_of_the_SubGeni...


Some of the quotes are from before I was even born so that is just one of the references I don't know and just assumed it was a date thrown out for no reason.


This is true.

Love the "See also:" Heaven's Gate, a real-life cult with a similar concept of "X-Day"




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