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W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics

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How to Predict the Future of the Universe

You can't predict what you's going to see in a billion and one iturations. You can think of certain rules by which the universe works or the economy work, but there's no way to see what that will lead to. No matter how many we know, as some ginnis book of records numbers of digits, there's an infinite numberr we don't know and never will. We can't say very far ahead what sort of new technologies are going to rise. And when again, it's like saying, i don't know what the future digits of pie are going to be.

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