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An Arab Proverb About Forecasting
Working my way through Kishore Mahbubani's recent book, "The New Asian Hemisphere", and came upon this great Arab proverb on the topic of forecasting:
He who speaks about the future lies, even when he tells the truth.
At IFTF, there is a broad understanding based on experience, that no one can predict the future. But we rarely say that no one should... perhaps we need to be as aggressive about that as these ancient sages.
(Forecasting, on the other hand, is an ability and practice any good Arab would have embraced out of the necessity of survival in the desert.)