Future Babble : Why Expert Predictions Fail - And Why We Believe Them Anyway (Paperback)

from lamour

It is going to be difficult to read another prediction without thinking of this book. Gardner pokes holes in the prognostications of many famous analysts and talking heads. Dividing these thinkers into foxes and hedgehogs, he explains why we continually buy into what they tell us is coming tomorr...

from mrgan

A level-headed argument that most far-reaching predictions about the future of human affairs are baloney-especially when they're delivered by recognized experts on the subject. Could've used a wider range of topics to pick examples from, but it works.

from MartinBodek

This book = The Black Swan x Freakonomics steroids. I loved the argument set forth in the book and the examples used to prove them, as I make this argument all the time: you can't predict anything, why don't you just quit it?