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Interesting, but avoided the one question I really wanted asked: "I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who didn't end up looking stupid
by ken 17y ago
Interesting, but avoided the one question I really wanted asked:
"I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who didn't end up looking stupid when they predicted 50 years ago what life would be like today. What can you say to convince us that you'll be one of the 5 of this generation who got it right?"
Technology has a way of surprising everybody.
- old-gregg 17y agoYou're right, the future may surprise you! Just go and watch "Back to the Future 2" again and then ask yourself: "Where is my anti-gravitational skateboard and a self-drying jacket, self-tailoring jeans?" Or even something simpler: "Where did 24-bit true-color laptops go?"
- baddox 17y agoMost "true predictions" from 50 years ago are simply random likely occurrences given the number of "predictions" made. I use quotes around the word because most of these accounts aren't actually people saying they believe the future will be a certain way. Most depictions of the future are in fiction, and even fiction hailed as being quite accurate has many more inaccuracies that are simply ignored. If someone was really trying to predict was the future would be like, then it wouldn't be that impressive that they would get 5 or even 10 percent of their predictions correct, due to chance.