The result of materialization to omissions of the mainstream IO psychology is a failure to predict changes within industrial/organizational (IO) psychology. To learn more of the present, past, and to better predict the future of IO psychology, an exploration occurs of three existing deficiencies as an implicit acceptance of a political economic framework, ahistorical habits, and a failure to appreciate continuity. The suggestion of the analysis is the future will be more consistent with the present than current assumptions, and it may be necessary for IO psychologists to understand better the historical status of the position of their field, the ongoing political economy, and the historical context of organizational evolution. The predictive efforts of industrial organizational psychologists of the future nature of organizational work and their own future has been mostly unsuccessful. The future will be looked on through the inaccuracies of problematic previous predictions, making the assumption the predictions themselves to be less informative than the analysis of the inaccuracies within the predictions. Certain predictions such as self-actualization within the workplace, participation in management by lower-level participants, the inevitable death of bureaucracy, and the satisfaction of lower-level needs may ultimately come true within the majority, pertaining to these superfactors life has improved just barely. For many people in context things have gotten worse. Speculating the reasons for failure and making the assertion through understanding these failures, a better understanding will present itself in the accuracy of predicting the future and understanding IO psychology.