Author: Mark Sweetnam

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Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 89

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Predicting the future is a human obsession. Companies invest resources in the services of analysts who identify hot trends. Scientists design complex mathematical models that can be used to predict events in the world and the universe. Philosophers and sociologists contemplate the future of humanity. And multitudes of men and women consult mediums, fortune-tellers, and astrologers in the vain hope that their predictions will serve as something to guide their lives and guide their decisions. The future, it has been said, is good business. But although the future interests us greatly, we understand very little about it. The inability of politicians, commentators and so-called prophets to anticipate continued financial turmoil is only recent evidence of our inability to predict. the course of upcoming events, or the nature and magnitude they will have. Time and time again, confidently delivered predictions have proved embarrassing to their misguided authors. These failures are inevitable because we are temporal beings, immersed in time; we are finite, limited in our knowledge. As such, we lack the ability to detach ourselves from the course of events and gain a stable perspective to make sense of what is happening. Our intellects can embrace only a very small part of the elements and forces that determine events. A definitive explanation of the future can come only from someone who is positioned outside of time and can discern every cause, be it the whims of individuals or the violence of conflicts and catastrophes.globales. https: //amzn.to/2Xdtq2m