We should, of course, be humbler about forecasting.
"If the last 10 to 15 years teaches us anything at all, it's that we should be humble about our ability to forecast oil prices," said Bob McNally, a former Bush administration energy official and president of the Rapidan Group consulting firm.
According to him, these developments forecast a fresher, leafier, and more humble Christchurch.
Personally, I find the pessimists more convincing than the optimists -- though any economist who honestly keeps track of his own forecasting record quickly learns to be humble.
In technology foresight, more humble approaches are now state of the art: technology forecasting (in the sense of predicting breakthroughs with definite timelines) has been supplanted by scenarios5 and recently by hermeneutic approaches, the deconstruction of future images ("vision assessment") [32].
Anyway, three months ago I forecast that Hazel Woolley, the tough nut who owns the Grundys' humble hovel, would have them all out on their ear by Christmas.
Blanchard eats a slice of humble pie, saying that it is fair to say that the IMF's forecast was too pessimistic, and growth has been much stronger than we forecast.
Supple Software is a dynamic company that was built on humble beginnings in 1993 and has grown to a $1 million company now with increased revenue forecasts for 2000.
Supple Software is a dynamic company that was built on humble beginnings in 1993 and has grown to a $1 million company now with increased revenue forecasts for 2000.
The humble weather symbol 40 years on Jump to media player Forty years since weather symbols were introduced to BBC forecasts, BBC Weather's John Hammond looks back at the evolution of how the corporation has presented the weather.
