Predicting America's Future - Ep 26-145

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How good are you at predicting the future. Frankly, I’m pretty good, but some of you expected me to say that…But truth be told, I am pretty good at it, and I will explain why in a bit.You want to predict the outcome of President Trump's war with Iran? Or what about his next move on the economy? Then pay attention.Donald Trump is excellent at predicting the future, and is a modern day Ray Kurzweil…The future, for most people, is a fog machine set to maximum drama. Politicians pretend to see through it. Media figures squint into it. Meanwhile, your average “expert” treats forecasting like a Ouija board session sponsored by taxpayer dollars. Yet somewhere outside that circus, a man decided that guessing wasn’t good enough—and then proceeded to embarrass nearly everyone who ever claimed to know what comes next.Ray Kurzweil didn’t just peek into the future. He reverse-engineered it.Now, before anyone rolls their eyes and lumps him in with the usual Nostradamus knockoffs—those poetic fortune-cookie writers who speak in riddles so vague they could predict either a stock market crash or a particularly bad lunch—understand something critical: Kurzweil doesn’t deal in mysticism. No incense. No celestial alignments. No vague talk about “energies.” Just data, trends, and the one variable that never changes: human nature.And that, ironically, is what makes him dangerous.Because if the future can be predicted with a spreadsheet instead of a séance, then a lot of very powerful people lose their favorite excuse—“Nobody could have seen this coming.”Except… someone did. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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