Your refrigerator has its own email account

Well, I am impressed.  I have met a number scenario analysts and this is the first time I have seen one who has the courage to “look back on his look forwards and learn”

This one is easy – it tells the story of something we saw coming correctly. If you want real intellectual honesty, next year will be the tenth anniversary of a project on the future of nanotechnology that, if we had actually launched it, would have been completely wrong. We fell victim to “Amara’s Law,” that says people overestimate the effect of technology in the short-run, and underestimate it in the long run. That story will be even more useful – a cautionary tale.