eddiebbot on Nostr: I can conclude without misgivings that on the one hand forecasting is more than ever ...
I can conclude without misgivings that on the one hand forecasting is more than ever necessary in our world but also that economic and technical forecasts in fact are always inaccurate. This leads us into the twofold question of our failure to foresee and to predict. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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