keV,
Hello!
I was reading through the posts and I do read yours always.
I was struck by the bolded statement you make because I know you know better than this:
"THOSE WHO BELIEVE THEY CAN SEE THE FUTURE ARE, BY DEFINITION, DELUSIONAL."
Some examples of people who saw the future from the past would be Howard Hughes, Orville and Wikbur Wright, Thomas Edison, The writers of the U.S. Constitution particularly looked to the future. Who was it that envisioned a land connected from sea to sea by a railroad when locomotives did not exist?
You know these things. In every era people live, there are those who have great imagination and vision to do things not yet even thought about.
They are called entrepreneurs and visionaries, occasionally by the less open minded, they are called quacks and delusional.
The test to find out which they really and truly were and are or will be? TIME.
I think a lot of the great visionaries and pionees of the past are well vindicated today.
I am only suggesting that perhaps we not be too harsh with the terminology as all we know right now is that there are different opinions.
Thanks for understanding,
the best,
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