So I was talking to a friend who’s involved in those weird
industries that predict trends and developments and we start
talking about the mid-future. Mid-future is, apparently, ten-to-twenty
years from now. And we were talking about Bill Gates’ claim that we
always overestimate technological developments that will happen within
ten years, and always underestimate those that will happen within twenty.
Gates’ theory being an interesting analogue of Chaos theory in a sense,
in that the tiny developments that happen now may prove to be the most
significant and transformative. And about half an hour into the conversation,
said friend gets kind of mysterious and smug-looking and I don’t know why.
Apparently it’s got something to do with something called Danza.
But he wouldn’t tell me any more…
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