Netflix has always provoked hyperbole, with boosters saying that it will change everything and skeptics prophesying its imminent downfall.
Visiting the Berlin Wall in 1982, she prophesied that it would be brought down by the "anger and frustration of the people".
One of her early belt fastenings she took from a harness shop in Tours, only to discover later, as the peasants prophesied, that it worked better on horses than on women.
In the mid-1980's, as it became clear that AIDS was not primarily a disease of gay American men but was killing millions of people — men, women and children — in poor countries, many public health doctors prophesied that it would be a double disaster for those with leprosy.
I'm just asking.... Let's see, what else? Medicare just turned 50 years old, and despite what Ronald Reagan prophesied about it, freedom still does actually exist in America.
Alexander Hamilton, no less, was a fierce opponent of granting two senators to each state, regardless of population, accurately prophesying that "it may happen that this majority of States is a small minority of the people of America".
While this does then become a bit of a self fulfilling prophesy, it does make them a better group for still further research or more integrated projects than some other groups as we're starting from a more solid base of knowledge.
Yet it has also been one of the most self-confident fields in prophesying that it will soon achieve the ultimate breakthrough.
It may not have lasted, as Rousseau rashly prophesied, forever, but it certainly endured for more than a century.
