Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway by Dan Gardner

Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway

Dan Gardner

320 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science informative reflective fast-paced
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In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did...

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