Dickeson--Throw Away the Crystal Ball

Forecasters of the Future
As forecasters of the future, we're all ignorant. For one thing, we haven't yet fully recognized the truth and implications of Chaos Theory. Even though we know that minor shifts in input will provoke major changes in results, we still won't concede its validity. It's too great a shift of prevailing paradigms to swallow readily. Nonetheless, small changes in input are going to happen. They always do.