The Perils of Prophecy

We cannot predict the future.

The future's not ours to see

The future's not ours to see

The future's not ours to see

Can you foretell the future?

It's analyzing trends. It's predicting the future.

Our brain is a brilliant device which can make predictions about the future.

And you'll hear people say, well, we can't predict the future.

As a statesman, I can assure you that no one can foretell the future.

weather cycles, business cycles, biological cycles, that give you a complete handle and accurate forecast of the future.

Market research data is wonderful on the size of markets in the past, but if market researchers were great at predicting the future, they'd actually be running hedge funds, so one of the things I don't accept from my students is,

loss of a sense of the future.

Connecting to the Future

And even when we think about the future, we don't think of our future normally as experiences.

Despite this, over the course of the last 20 years, economists began to act as if we thought we could genuinely predict the economic future. If the universe didn t oblige, it wasn t because our models were wrong market failure was to blame.

It's not going to go away.

Are you hopeful about the future?

Are you hopeful about the future?

Hey,You're Me In The Future.

Maybe I can foretell the future.

Yes, in the very near future.

The Government of Uganda would also appreciate technical assistance in ascertaining the cause of the earthquake, as well as the extent of the damage, and in forecasting the geological future of the region.

Because you can't trust the future.

But there exists out there a very large population of people who will tell you that they have psychic, magical powers that they can predict the future, that they can make contact with the deceased.

She dreamed of their future together.

This gives us hope for the future, however.

I would appreciate it if you didn't treat her so carelessly in the future.

Cold war certainties have given way, but in their place we have unpredictability and instability a political unease about our future, uncertainty about where collective endeavours can take us.

Unwritten books predicted the future, projected the past.

Deflation discourages optimism about the future.

Together we must now look to the future.

Ladies and gentlemen, what gives me tremendous confidence in the future is the fact that we are now more empowered as individuals to take on the grand challenges of this planet.

Once in a while, our fears can predict the future.

We insist on faith in the future and in each other.

If a friend invites you to their party, there's an obligation for you to invite them to a future party you are hosting.

To see change that we must have if we care about the future.

We insist on faith in the future and in each other.

Like any exercises in futurology, such scenarios have their limits, but they help us ask which three or four major political factors will help shape the outcome.

If science is defined by its ability to forecast the future, the failure of much of the economics profession to see the crisis coming should be a cause of great concern.

But I think that we have grounds to be optimistic about the future.

It is a clear set of guidelines for the future.

You just made a prediction about the future that has never happened in reality.

How can you predict the future? That's really hard.

We have a chance to go and to think of the future as something which is open to the world.