[fleitz]

It's easy to avoid this future, observation of past future predictions suggests we're not very good at it. Therefore this future is unlikely and simply by relying on our poor prediction skills we can avoid this future without doing anything.

[jQueryIsAwesome]

Yeah, but doing things with the purpose of improving the future will (probably) lead to a better future than if we do nothing at all.

If you want to see the past you can use http://hntimeline.com/ (yeah, shameless plug)

[ngvrnd]

This is the most dangerous kind of fuzzy thinking. The twentieth century is littered with counterexamples.

See http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2012/07/it-isnt-easy-to-und...