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Predicting the future is never easy, and it's particularly difficult in the fast-paced world of videogames.
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Historically, predicting the future sales of compounds in clinical development is difficult to do.
Rather, these great minds all recommend following a simple asset allocation strategy that doesn't rely on predicting the future.
While predicting the future is dangerous in any industry, the utility industry has an especially poor record in this department.
Predicting the future of traditional telephone companies is getting harder every day.
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Our view is that human beings are not real good at predicting the future in anything really, whether it is football games or investments.
Now, economic -- as I said yesterday, I'm not an economist but I do know that the business of predicting the future in terms of economics is tricky.
Similarly, recent events are usually overemphasized in predicting the future.
Nevertheless, the inflation outlook remains highly uncertain, not least because of the difficulty of predicting the future course of commodity prices, and we will continue to monitor inflation and inflation expectations closely.
Then again, even with reams of data (manufacturing orders, consumer spending, unemployment rates, stock prices) and complex computer models at their disposal, richly paid soothsayers prove notoriously bad at predicting the future.
If nothing else, the outcome of the Kenya election, not to mention my poor predictions for the Africa Cup of Nations, served to confirm there will be no alternative career for me in predicting the future.
Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.
Gates has traditionally used the speech as a pulpit for predicting the techno-future or for unveiling an ambitious new product line from Microsoft.
He made his big splash in 1973 with his best-selling takedown of stock-picking, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, in which he illustrated the futility of accurately predicting future stock prices, noting how a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the stock page of a newspaper could pick winners as well as a Wall Street professional.
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After the parting shots by Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, predicting a "dim and dismal" future for Nato if the other members of the alliance do not do more to defend their interests, it is apparent that extending the "Libyan model" of intervention elsewhere in the troubled region would be extremely hard.
If there really were such a simple and reliable indicator of future economic conditions, predicting the recession would have been easy, betting on the economy via the stock market would wither and we'd probably see an eyebrow derivatives market.
But these forecasts are often badly done, or worse, done with a purpose to influence the future while pretending to be predicting it.
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More practically it is a coarse figure, unlikely to have much utility in predicting future risks, or determining where the remaining resources are best allocated.
Using a sample of 262 data points over a nine year period from July 2002 to August 2011, CXO found that the HSNSI had little power in predicting future stock market returns.
Projected boosts in infrastructure-related construction mean there is a bright future in this field, with the BLS predicting 19% job growth from 2010 to 2020.
All vary so much from one season to the next that they aren't particularly useful for predicting future performance.
But it does mean that predicting future coaching success is an inexact science that has to rely on the intangible.
With Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy predicting a rough 2013, finding support for new energy efforts seems unlikely in the near future.
And in the last decade, psychologists and economists have discovered that people make systematic errors when predicting their future satisfactions.
The Times describes it as a tense event, predicting "years of bitter wrangling" over Scotland's future.
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