The New York Times has been confidently wrong about the future of airplanes, TV, the iPhone — and very soon it'll be wrong about crypto too.
12 min
May 20, 2026
Five times the mainstream media made "laughably inaccurate" but confident-sounding predictions about the future of technology.
written by
Felix Ng , Staff Writer
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