The fact that a simple duplication divergence model is able to account for most properties of software maps (Valverde and Solé 2005a, b) provides an unexpected twist to Jacob's views: even the engineer, who certainly foresees the future, is eventually forced to tinker.
Baseball certainly never foresaw today's belt-tightening, and definitely didn't prepare for so many of its top corporate partners disappearing altogether or being bought out for pennies on the dollar.
And were Ebadi to take on the current political system, we may just see the next miracle in modern Iranian history, one that Ayatullah Khomeini began, but one he certainly never foresaw.
Some of those players may be close to retirement, but Galwey certainly does not foresee decline.
We certainly didn't foresee that one day, email would become our primary method of communication.
I certainly didn't foresee a big sexism row over it.
"I certainly don't foresee her playing basketball," said Alan Patricof, a Clinton fund-raiser.
But Ben Ali certainly did not foresee that 10 days after Bouazizi's death he himself would be out of power and fleeing the country amid mass demonstrations.
ISIS seems much more irreconcilable than Vietnam was, but the case isn't open-and-shut, and we certainly didn't foresee reconciliation with Vietnam at the time.If America is deciding, despite its war-weariness, to take on ISIS now, several other factors seem important.
"We certainly didn't foresee a 16 million-unit market, or what happened in housing," said GM's chief financial officer, Frederick Fritz Hendersonon.
