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Contrarian Futures

The Futurists

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The Importance of Timelines in Forecasting

Futurism is like a tangle of different methodologies that I'd rather cherry pick from than follow one specifically. How important is timeline? We had a Gaston recently who talked about Ray Kurzweil and one of the points he always makes is that you need to time your predictions. You can't just make forecast because, you know, someday we'll all take vacations on Mars. Some people don't want to stick to a timeline. And even if you're wrong, you can always readjust your forecasting.

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