It is well known that for most of us, facts and numbers, even combined with dire warnings about the future, fail to motivate.
That rosy belief might be undercut when even Larry Summers, as big an architect of the system as they come, plainly asserts that Piketty's grim predictions of the future fail to take in the "devastating consequences of robots, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and the like for those who perform routine tasks".
Thinking that the Internet is going to surpass other media in the future fails to take into account that it has already passed by all other media!
Meanwhile, multilateral talks to determine Kosovo's future status failed to yield a solution acceptable to both Serbs and Kosovars.
But the "Pearl of Africa", as the country is known, has struggled to define its economic future and failed to deliver basic services to the poor.
What appeared the obvious narrative arc thereafter – in which his comeback vehicle Mister Lonely would lead the way to a gentler, more John Waters-ish future – has failed to materialise, as anyone who sees the impressively grotesque Trash Humpers will note.
Most of the early attempts to design the future HSC failed to incorporate all these challenges in a single generic optimization framework using mathematical modeling approach.
This traditional approach of forecasting the future has failed to predict 'credible forecasts in the past few decades' [7], has failed to satisfy the forecasting needs of end users [7] and will fail to meet the challenges of non-stationarity of climate change and other uncertain factors into the future [6, 9].
The whole idea is about rejecting the modern in exchange for a misguided Victorian interpretation of the future that failed to see the coming of the digital age.
He declared that the Dred Scott decision showed that federal courts afforded adequate protection for slave property, but advocated a federal slave code if future courts failed to enforce those protections; this marked a departure from his previous doctrine of "perfect non-interference".
