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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by el_cujo on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:14AM (#21946524)
>they aren't predictions at all

Sure they are, it's a nice counterpoint to the people who think in 10 years we'll have flying cars and a fully immersive VR matrix and nobody will have a real job since AI and robots will do everything for us.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by WhompingWindows on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:37PM (#21948875)
Hardly a "nice counterpoint", it's the polar opposite and is merely stating that innovation will be near zero and the status quo will continue. It's possible to have an outcome between TOTAL innovation and ZERO innovation.
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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by sidlls on Friday January 03, 2020 @05:34PM (#21951060)
Innovation is a set of lumpy perturbations on a mostly-smooth status quo. That’s the counterpoint to these outlandish predictions seen in other comments.
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