64 Quotes About Future-prediction




  • Author Derek Thompson
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    In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.

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  • Author Dan Chaon
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    I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Meanwhile, my dream for the future was that it wouldn't involve mass extinction and large-scale water shortages and cannibalism.

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  • Author Mitch Kapor
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    (the singularity is) intelligent design for the IQ 140 people . . .This proposition that we're heading to this point at which everything is going to be just unimaginably different--it's fundamentally, in my view, driven by a religious impulse. And all the frantic arm-waving can't obscure that fact for me.

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