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The first person to realize that human activity has the potential to substantially change the world may well have been Thomas Jefferson.
Making predictions is very difficult, especially about the future.
Variously attributed to Niels Bohr, Yogi Berra, Mark Twain, Enrico Fermi, Graucho Marx, Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Woody Allen, Confucius, and others.
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Hay, W.W. (2021). Predictions of the Future of Humanity. In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76339-8_32
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