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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show
Episode: You couldn’t have predicted we’d do this show about predicting the future
Description: Humans have been trying for, well, forever to predict the future. But how helpful is predicting the future, really? And what factors determine whether someone is successful at doing it, or not? This hour, we try to predict whether predicting the future is useful, and understand why we’re so interested in doing so. GUESTS: Amanda Rees: A historian of science based at the University of York who works on the history of the future and coauthor of the book Human Warren Hatch: A superforecaster and CEO of Good Judgment Inc. Allan Lichtman: A dist...