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Since the early 1970s computer models of varying complexity have been used to make projections of different aspects of the future of both societies and climate.
Making predictions is very difficult, especially about the future.
Variously attributed to Niels Bohr, Yogi Berra, Mark Twain, Enrico Fermi, Groucho Marx, Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Woody Allen, Confucius, and others
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Hay, W.W. (2016). The Future . In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27404-1_31
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