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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, 'Will I vote for Trump,' that's defeatist. I'm not going to be a defeatist.

I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you?

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.