Predicting the future of society

Predicting the future is something that humans have tried to do - in various ways - for a very long time. A paper by Grossmann et al. tests the ability of social scientists to predict societal change and finds that they are not particularly good at it.

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Predicting the future has been a long-standing endeavor of humans. However, a study by Grossmann et al. reveals that social scientists have proven to be quite inept in forecasting societal changes.