Predictions Are Hard To Make–Especially About the Future

Here’s a reminder that predicting the future is impossible.  That huge mainframe computer was the state of the art in IT just 70 years ago.  What the fellow is saying turns out to be perfectly true, but the point here is how completely impossible it would have been for him to make that comment at the time.

Think of this next time you read an article that lays out where we’ll be in terms of transportation, nutrition, AI, environmental responsibility, space travel, world politics, jobs and careers, or literally anything else in 70 years.  The only thing you need to know is that it’s almost certain to be laughably incorrect.