A quotation from James Thurber
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer
Letter (1961-07-05) to Marianna Brown
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By 2036, Microsoft Windows:
A quotation from Charles Mackay
The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)
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The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other…
A quotation from Shakespeare, William:
«
BANQUO: If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate.
»
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https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/70923/
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Lots of reports about how #datacenter operators/#hyperscalers are working on huge #capacity #expansions because of the sudden demand for #AI model-building (and to a lesser extent, inference usage). i.e.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/18/hyperscale_datacenter_capacity/
That one suggests capacity will triple over the next 6 years. Triple!
Easy #prognostication: in 2 or 3 years, when many companies realize "AI" isn't helping them much, they'll cut back. All that spare capacity makes #cloud #prices plummet...
#Bankruptcy for some?
#future #prognostication #wages #labor #inequalities
There will be problems, real problems, if wages in the United States haven't substantially improved within the next 15 to 20 years. Perhaps earlier.
Punxsutawney Phil
the sole reason I've seen a
sunrise in ten years
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