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In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future — everything from th

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Author

Dan Gardner

Publisher

McClelland and Stewart

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771035135

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Social History

Rating

3.84 / 5 (426 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14