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2025 Antipredictions: Chaos Theory, AI, and the End of Certainty

In our highly volatile geopolitical context, what can we predict for this year?

In 1927, Heisenberg unveiled what has remained until now one of the most revolutionary principles of modern physics: his famous uncertainty principle. Its predicament: in some physical states, the exact nature of the wo...

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Antipredictions 2024: Back to the Dystopian Future of 1984?

“If you want a picture of the future,” George Orwell wrote in 1984, “imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Nearly 80 years after the publication of 1984, is the world so different from the one imagined by the writer, haunted by the threat of totalitarianism?

Admittedly, the comparison ...

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ANTIPREDICTIONS 2023+: looking beyond the polycrisis?

Will the world go bust or recover in 2023?

As the adage says, futurists exist to help astrologers look serious…

At each year’s eve, analysts and institutions compete to share their predictions for the coming times. Quite a perilous exercise that often results in mixed outcomes, as we highlighted i...

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ANTIPREDICTIONS 202x+: towards the loss of the future?

A deep economic crisis, a worldwide pandemic, and the start of a new world war in Ukraine: The last few years have seen dramatic events unfold.

And while many investment firms anticipate a decade of stagflation in the West — or even a looming financial 'hurricane' — even darker times may lie ahead...

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