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Why the future of technology is so hard to predict
The failure of a fridge designed by Einstein offers a clue.
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More recent predictions by futurists rely too much on extending the latest, trendiest technologies into new realms, says the writer.
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Faye Flam
They don’t make technology predictions like they used to. Just look at the amazingly prescient technological wish list famed chemist Robert Boyle jotted down in a note found after his death in 1691:
“The recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair, new hair color’d as in youth.” Check.
