While most of us believe the future is unknown, we pay good money and believe those who predict what it will be. This is the future paradox. The future is unknowable. Yet, crowds of people have formed predicting what it will bring. Even more remarkable is that all of us know the first, yet many believe the second. The prediction class blossoms in December and then fade in the new year – to write more books. We crave any word from our politicians, our scientists, our futurists, our astrologers. How can they know, being they are often wrong? It’s like predicting earthquakes, often made and often wrong. The predictor class is not unlike the insect. During the early year they are in the larval stage, proceeding to the pupae stage around midyear, and finally in the last months take their adult form full of future predictions. Laying their eggs, usually on TV, they prepare for the new year, ready to grub about, ready for their adult stage. If they are correct on only a couple of
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