Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with. (Isaac Asimov)

Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.

Isaac Asimov

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