User blog comment:Eastward Expansion/What do you think the Future will bring? (Book Review part 1)/@comment-1650675-20100729195347

Personally, I think the future is too random to accurately predict. Look at H.G. Well's prediction of flying cars and interplanetary spaceships by 2000. Do we have those? No. At the same time, however, Wells would never have imagined the internet,or the Bomb, or even the concept of fusion power. In 4th century Rome, if you were to go around saying that Germanic tribes are going to overwelm the Empire within 100 years, you would be thought a crazy man. If you were to go up to Queen Victoria in 1880 and say that the empire would fall within 60 years, you would be beleived a crazy man as well.