It's cruel, but useful for futurism to check recent predictions which have gone starkly awry. Seeing what made a different outcome emerge can point to model errors or assumptions.
And yes, it's fun, too. Sadistic, sad, eye-bleeding fun at times:
“I believe the banking system has been stabilized. No one is asking themselves anymore, is there some major institution that might fail and that we would not be able to do anything about it.” —Henry Paulson on National Public Radio, Nov. 13, 2008
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