Recently discovered this, from 1980. The idea was to get experts to try to predict, among other things, how society & technology would develop in the near future. These are serious, credentialed ppl but as often as not they were comically wrong. The lessons here seems obvious
Recently discovered this, from 1980. The idea was to get experts to try to predict, among other things, how society & technology would develop in the near future. These are serious, credentialed ppl but as often as not they were comically wrong. The lessons here seems obvious
Recently discovered this, from 1980. The idea was to get experts to try to predict, among other things, how society & technology would develop in the near future. These are serious, credentialed ppl but as often as not they were comically wrong. The lessons here seems obvious
Recently discovered this, from 1980. The idea was to get experts to try to predict, among other things, how society & technology would develop in the near future. These are serious, credentialed ppl but as often as not they were comically wrong. The lessons here seems obvious
Recently discovered this, from 1980. The idea was to get experts to try to predict, among other things, how society & technology would develop in the near future. These are serious, credentialed ppl but as often as not they were comically wrong. The lessons here seems obvious
Some of the predictions are actually pretty good. This guy, for instance:
Some of the predictions are actually pretty good. This guy, for instance:
Some of the predictions are actually pretty good. This guy, for instance:
Remember, this was predicted in 1980. He was smart, however: he stuck pretty close to his field of expertise and he “only” predicted up to about 25 years out
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