The Book of Predictions

1981, later edition, from Bantam
David Wallechinksy, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wallace
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Predictions
Possibly bought newish for $3.95
Worn paperback
C-

Although you might think it would be fun to look back at predictions of the future some three decades later, this is a mostly boring collection.  (It does pick up as it goes on.)  I think the two most ironic things are the predicted 1985 headline "KING CHARLES CHOOSES QUEEN" and, more sadly, Jessica Savitch making predictions, when she herself would die in a car accident in 1983, at the age of 36.

Most of the predictions are overly optimistic, with near-utopias by 2030.  Even the predictions of technology that came true, such as email, were a decade or two later than expected.  Online comments that go into specifics can be found here and here:
http://www.paullee.com/ghosts/bookofpredictions.html
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/06/the-book-of-pre

But the best failures are on the list of National Enquirer failed predictions for the late 1970s, such as "In 1979, Spiro Agnew will win a cinema acting award."