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Future Fails: October 2025
What won’t happen
Introducing Future Fails
As everyone knows, predicting what will happen is difficult, especially when the future is involved. There are times when playing the futurist, which is historian spelled backwards, is too difficult to resist.
History is not popular anymore, so it has been a long time since I worked teaching history. People are not interested in learning from the past, which has much to teach us, but are very willing to swallow statements about the future that are not only stupid but deadly.
Future Fails will be an occasional topic. I’m not saying what will happen, but what is more likely not to happen, hence future fails. In our current age of disaster and decline, things are increasingly complicated, but at least we don’t have to deal with what someone else claims really happened.
The past is mainly made up but not out of whole cloth, although the best definition is the lie commonly agreed upon. The historian’s job is to cross-reference the lies to determine what may be closest to what actually happened.
As a futurist, you need to start with what is actually happening and anticipate the range of lies that will result. The technique to determine what actually happened and what might or might not occur has been…
