Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

After all, we were ambitious and set the bar very high.

However, the year did not deliver to the full of our expectations.

What can we and he expect?

In each instance, our expectations are defied.

First, it is important that expectations be kept modest.

There have been huge leaps. There will be a million fold improvement in what you can get for the same price in computing by 2030.

And I do believe that this interaction with the history, with history that is often very difficult, to grapple with it, to create a position that is beyond our normal expectations and to create a critique.

Those measures might not meet everyone's expectations, but they reflect a degree of consensus that is both challenging and inspiring.

Our economic prospects have deteriorated with the decline in commodity prices, loss of traditional markets, erosion of preferences and declining levels of ODA and foreign direct investment.

PH We missed a lot. You know, you missed, we missed the Internet, the long tail, the role of the audience, open systems, social networks.

With reference to the cluster entitled Freedom from fear , contrary to our expectations, the report takes some positions that we feel ought to have been more balanced.

Once our predictions fail, the damage could be catastrophic When North Korea forged ahead with its nuclear tests, all the media repeated that South Korea could launch preemptive strikes .

If all of our expectations of attaining our goals have not been met, we must do even more to further coordinate our efforts to find new mechanisms for resolving strategic problems.

For that reason, it is our high expectation that we will see an open, universal, equitable, rule based, predictable, non discriminatory and development oriented multilateral trading system.

Whether the world economy grows now at 4 or 5 matters, but it does not much affect our medium term prospects.

The final document adopted yesterday at the summit (resolution 60 1) has unquestionably fallen short of our expectations. However, it provides us with guidelines that will enable us to carry out our work.

Mr. Southcott (Australia) Last year when Australia spoke under this agenda item, we had some grave concerns about the situation in the Middle East, and our prognosis was bleak.

And just admitting this just admitting that there are right and wrong answers to the question of how humans flourish will change the way we talk about morality, and will change our expectations of human cooperation in the future.

Of course, just as it was inappropriate to extrapolate from the previous decade of strong growth, one should not read too much into short term fluctuations.

We walk across graduation stages, high on our overblown expectations, and when we float back down to earth, we realize we don't know what the heck it means to actually save the world anyway.

The outcome document, while falling short of our expectations, presents a platform for multilateral solutions to the broad range of global problems related to development, peace and security, human rights, the rule of law and the reinvigoration of the United Nations.

On the question of the enlargement of the Security Council, any hasty action in disregard of the interests of all sides will create serious division among Member States and may result in a final outcome of the September summit that is not up to our expectations.

The issues that I have outlined above reflect the concerns of the Group of 77 and China regarding approaches and actions reflected in document A 60 430 that are inconsistent with our expectations of the processes and structures for consultations and negotiations and the provisions of resolution 60 1.

Whereas energy in terms of temperature can disappear relatively easily from the light atmosphere, it is unclear where the heat from global warming should have gone and certainly this is again much better than expected .

While much has changed in the years since the Organization's creation, and while the United Nations has not always fulfilled our expectations, the hope and the ideals that inspired its founders remain just as alive and just as needed today as they have ever been.

I appreciated the real estate values beyond everybody's expectations and the owners of the park turned me down for eight million dollars last year, and said, Mr. Strickland, you ought to get the Civic Leader of the Year Award because you've appreciated our property values beyond our wildest expectations.

So in this ambition to capture songs from the universe, we turn our focus to black holes and the promise they have, because black holes can bang on space time like mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song, which I'd like to play for you some of our predictions for what that song will be like.