That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
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I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
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