There will be a billion millionaires, the group predicts, thanks largely to technological innovation.
Many of us turned out to be more resilient than predicted — thanks, in part, to the affirmation offered by our alternative rock icons and third-wave feminist ideals.
Even the Reagan White House, where Mr Pipes was an adviser, was not immune to wobbles and muddles, acutely described in this wonderful book.When Soviet power collapsed, much as he had predicted, thanks to its inability to keep up with American military might, Mr Pipes was proved triumphantly right.
This is an example where emergent behavior of type II has been predicted thanks to agent-based modeling and simulation (Figure 7).
Wal-Mart no longer reports monthly results, but sales could fall 9% for BJ's Wholesale and 4% for Costco, Dreher predicts, thanks mainly to lower pump prices.
SMILE distribution was normalized with a logarithmic transformation and SMILE log-values were predicted thanks to a multiple linear regression model.
Many regions associated with human isochores could be characterized and predicted thanks to factors other than the GC content, such as the intron lengths and the gene density.
John Maynard Keynes complained in 1930 that "we have been trained too long to strive and not to enjoy" and went on to predict that, thanks to technology, we would have a three-hour day by 2030.
The same is true of Wikipedia: here Chinese is somewhat better connected, but it is still much less than its size or GDP would predict, possibly thanks to the existence of a Wikipedia-like Baidu Baike collaborative encyclopedia.The upshot is clear: big languages are not necessarily global, and vice-versa.
Even if there is a spill, BP confidently predicts that, thanks to "proven equipment and technology", adverse affects will be minimal.
