The wrong stuff

“In the future, predictions of the future will be as off-base as they’ve been in the past… Back in the early 1980s, David Byrne wrote a piece of music called ‘In The Future,’ in which he rattled off a deadpan litany of contradictory predictions. (‘In the future no one will fight with anyone else. In the future there will be an atomic war.’) For Byrne, the list was a source of droll humor. But in today’s technology marketplace, such prognostication is a serious business.”