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Daniel Nest's avatar

I'm gonna go ahead and be the "Well, actually...." guy here and share this old article of mine where I not so much debunk as put in context some of these so-called "bad predictions": https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famously-bad-predictions-experts-didnt-actually-make.php

All three of yours are on my list, along with 7 others.

But that doesn't take away from your point. Predictions are hard. Unless you're predicting that Daniel will be a wise-ass. In which case, you're always 100% correct.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

It's a good thing most predictions don't come true. In the prototype days of science fiction in the 19th century, many authors wore their politics on their sleeves and concocted utopians where white men solved their societies' problems easily and subjugated everyone else to their rule. I would be delighted to inform them that this did not happen (at least the former part).

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