What Nelson and the reformers of the 94th Congress had not anticipated was exactly how prescient President Eisenhower's warning regarding the military industrial complex would be.
It is neither a new nor unusual phenomenon, but this year it proves to be particularly timely: the term gentrification was coined exactly 50 years ago, in the prescient writings of Marxist sociologist Ruth Glass.
GM truck sales were down nearly 40.0% in May so you can't exactly call the firm prescient.
While this may seem another "prescient" solution, what, exactly, is our $40 billion-a-year intelligence apparatus for, if not making reliable predictions?
To which one might reply that Colin Powell's misgivings at the start of this war — "You break it, you own it" — and even those of Bush the Elder, speaking of the first gulf war — "We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq" — look a good deal more sensible and prescient now that exactly this has come to pass.
That proved quite prescient, as that is exactly what they are attempting to do.
It appears we were prescient, since that's exactly what the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge did.
The console as a 'home hub' just never materialized — despite the fact that Bill Gates had exactly predicted this moment in his incredibly prescient CES keynote in 2000.
There was no infrastructure to prevent flood damage despite a prescient 2010 Flood Control Department Report warning of exactly this scenario taking place by 2015, with recommendations to mitigate the future flooding.
It's amazing how prescient Nintendo's level designers were, predicting exactly how players would move, how they would look around, what they would see and how they would pursue it.
