Topic: A future without expert predictions! (Page 1 of 1)

Just caught this off of Slashdot - Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies. For some reason it reminded me of the Asylum..

According to expert futurologists, we face a nightmarish future -- a future without expert predictions of the future!

"People will get sick of it," said a spokesman for the Institute for Predictions. "They just won't want any more baseless predictions -- so people will stop making any."

Professor Isaac Sagan of the University of Pontification agrees. "In the future, people will almost certainly have gotten sick of hearing me talk about what will happen in the future. Very likely, I'll have to find another job -- such as fry cook, or hat salesman."

Although vapid, uninteresting predictions of the future are currently at a record high, even those who attempt to make actualy useful predictions foresee a downward trend.

"At some point, real problems are going to become impossible to ignore," pointed out Dr. Bob Gore of the Smartville College, Oxford. "With climate change already depopulating some areas, and the deepening split between the American, Muslim, and Chinese spheres of influence, it's only a matter of time until people just don't have the time to talk about whether, in future, they will have the time to make predictions about... hang on, I can't remember how I started this sentence."

Whoever you listen to, one theme is clear -- futurologists and the kind of 'experts' who appear in newspaper articles as 'experts predict' will one day die out, and that day may be sooner than we think. Which gives us all a ray of hope for the future.

(Edited by Petskull on 09-25-2006 18:33)

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For some reason it reminded me of the Asylum..

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[genuine] and what are those reasons? [/genuine]

Anyway, nurses, shock officer, I can safely predict this patient will need medication sometime soon.

Really interesting read.

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Luddites, technological ?refuseniks,? and violence: Most respondents agreed that there
will people who will remain unconnected to the network because of their economic
circumstances and others who think a class of technology refuseniks will emerge by
2020. They will form their own cultural group that lives apart from ?modern? society
and some will commit acts of violence in protest to technology. But many
respondents argue that violence arising from conflicts over religion, economics, and
politics, will be more prevalent.

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unfortunatly i have to agree with this point, its all ready happening, there are religious groups around now who shun technology like "the brethren"

then there are the people who arnt connected becasue of economic circumstance. i think we'll end up with 2 classes, connected's and disconnected's