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Welcome to another mind-blowing episode of "It Sucks To Be You"! Alex and Ben dive into the hilarious history of "Experts Who Saw Nothing Coming." From Dr. Dionysius Lardner's certainty that steamships could never cross the Atlantic, to Charles Duell's 1899 claim that "everything that can be invented has been invented," and IBM President Thomas Watson's infamous prediction of a world market for "maybe five computers" – these brilliant minds couldn't have been more wrong. Join us as we explore these spectacular face-plants into the wall of history and induct these forecasters into the Negative IQ Hall of Fame!