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It will be able to reveal new trends in our history, sometimes to explain them, and maybe even in the future to
predict
what's going to happen.
What has happened since, and what do the experts
predict
will happen with the number of children during this century?
And I think Chris would probably offer you some answer that you might not have understood, but it probably wouldn't have been right, and I think that to
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what finding E.T.'s going to mean, we can't
predict
that either.
So swift is the velocity of the techno-scientific revolution, so startling in its countless twists and turns, that no one can
predict
its outcome even a decade from the present moment.
Today they're developing analytical tools to do predictive modeling so that before you pick up the phone, you can guess or
predict
what this phone call is about.
Now, of course, when we first, as a multinational company, decide to outsource jobs to India in the R&D, what we are going to do is we are going to outsource the bottom rung of the ladder to India, the least sophisticated jobs, just like Tom Friedman would
predict.
For example, I
predict
that we will move away from a plant-based narcotics world to a synthetic one.
So this level of positioning, this is what we're looking for, and I believe that, within the next few years, I predict, that this kind of hyper-precise, carrier phase-based positioning will become cheap and ubiquitous, and the consequences will be fantastic.
So now I could control the thickness, the size, I could do whatever I want with it, and I could
predict
my results.
We live in a banana peel universe, and we won't ever be able to know everything or control everything or
predict
everything.
And those judgments can
predict
really meaningful life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date.
For example, Nalini Ambady, a researcher at Tufts University, shows that when people watch 30-second soundless clips of real physician-patient interactions, their judgments of the physician's niceness
predict
whether or not that physician will be sued.
Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second
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70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead you to claim more value from that negotiation.
I don't believe in precognition, and every now and then, you hear that somebody has been able to
predict
something that happened in the future, and that's probably because it was a fluke, and we only hear about the flukes and about the freaks.
You just can't
predict
necessarily how a person feels about that sex-related stimulus just by looking at their genital blood flow.
Your genital behavior just doesn't necessarily
predict
your subjective experience of liking and wanting.
It makes less sense that an emotion that was built to prevent me from ingesting poison should
predict
who I'm going to vote for in the upcoming presidential election.
So what we've been doing in my lab is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can
predict
which sites are most likely to cause disease.
Well, typically, in mammals there is a relationship between body size, metabolic rate, and how long you can live for, and you can
predict
how long a mammal can live for given its body size.
And once you have such algorithms, an external system, like the government, cannot just
predict
my decisions, it can also manipulate my feelings, my emotions.
As a writer, I can tell you that a big part of writing fiction is learning to
predict
how one event in a story will affect all the other events, and fear works in that same way.
Once in a while, our fears can
predict
the future.
The 20th century, the last hundred years, is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or
predict
the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.
We don't really have the technology to
predict
comet trajectories, or when one with our name on it might arrive.
Science has the power to
predict
the future in many cases now.
EM: I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority, and I
predict
it will be a plurality in less than 20 years.
We have some preliminary evidence from bargaining that early warning signs in the brain might be used to
predict
whether there will be a bad disagreement that costs money, and chimps are better competitors than humans, as judged by game theory.
In this other version of the experiment, we didn't put people in this situation, we just described to them the situation, much as I am describing to you now, and we asked them to
predict
what the result would be.
I think that this is something that will happen over the course of the next few years, but I'd like to finish with a quote about trying to
predict
how this will happen by somebody who's thought a lot about changes in concepts and changes in technology.
Could we
predict
which comments were likely to make someone else leave the online conversation?
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