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January 27, 2011
Book Review: Future Babble
By Wayne Hurlbert
"The desire to know the future is universal and constant, as the profusion of soothsaying techniques in human culture – from goats' entrails to tea leaves – demonstrates so well", writes award winning columnist and investigative journalist with the Ottawa Citizen, Dan Gardner, writes in his well researched and insightful book Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail – and Why We Believe Them Anyway. The author describes how those trusted experts are often very wrong in their forecasts and predictions, but the general public continues to put great faith in those same experts anyway.

Dan Gardner recognizes that despite being continually and often wildly inaccurate in their forecasts, expert forecasts and predictions never lose their widespread appeal. Dan Gardner sets out to discover why experts fail to forecast the future very well. The author also seeks to explain why people listen to and believe those same failed experts despite their dismal track record.

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