Predictions For The Next Thousand Years

Allan Milne Lees
6 min readDec 30, 2019

Why be modest? Predicting the future is easy.

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There’s something in human nature that loves to believe there’s a Grand Plan, a fixed order in the universe that if only we can uncover we will know what awaits. The human brain hates uncertainty and ambiguity. We want simple stories and easy promises.

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Allan Milne Lees

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