We need to remember that these people get paid to make predictions, not to be right. Maybe one day the C-Suites of the world will recognize that these predictions are being made by idiots.

Other predictions made in my life that were just as bad, if not worse:

We will run out of oil by 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Code generation tools will replace programmers by 1990 2000 2010 2020

Amnesty will end illegal immigration

Teaching (abstinence/sex ed) will put an end to teenage pregnancy

Hope and change

I will be rich by age 25

OK, the last one is true, I did meet and marry my better half, and she makes me feel rich!