“The premise that the future will resemble the past because it has always resembled the past will continue to be true until the first time it isn’t” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian FutureIn “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future?www.newyorker.com