Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA19501 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 1 May 2002 09:56:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20020501085121.3570.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 01:51:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Trupeljak Ozren <ozren_trupeljak@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: future language To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F66HJj8a5wY5vM00007474@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
--- Grant Callaghan <grantc4@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> It's been my observation over these past 70 and more years that most
> of the
> predictions of the future made in my lifetime were more wrong than
> right.
>
>
> Grant
>
Our definitions of the "predictions of the future" are then wildly
divergent. For example, for me the capability to accurately predict
weather for next day is already orders of magnitude more than what our
ancestors were capable off. All of our science is based on the idea
that we can model and *predict* the phenomena in nature. The success
there is obviously something that I count as success in predictions
about the future, while (again obviously) you don't. This is perfectly
fine, as long as we are both aware that we are speaking about different
things when we speak of "prediction of the future". :)
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There are very few men - and they are exceptions - who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.
Carl von Clausewitz
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