"Given the abundance of failed forecasts, their systematic recounting, be it by subject, decade, or region, would be tedious. **Readers of a certain age will recall that by now we should have relied completely (or at least largely) on nuclear electricity, that Concorde was to be just a prelude to ubiquitous supersonic intercontinental flights, and that the Y2K glitch should have shut down all computing on January 1, 2000**." ([Location 4030](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=4030)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[the-black-swan]], [[forecasting]], [[skepticism]] **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]