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thehappybooker 's review for:
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We can't predict the biggest developments in science, culture, and news that will profoundly impact us as a whole nation, or people, or world. That thought is both exciting and very scary.
A black swan event occurred at the same time I decided to go back to school - the development of web browsers - and now I make a living at a career that didn't exist when I started grad school. It was a happy coincidence that I was studying information management at the same time that the Information Superhighway was being constructed right under our noses.
Interesting idea for exploration: Are the predictions we make about our personal lives more, or less, accurate than social scientists can make about the probable paths of whole nations?
A black swan event occurred at the same time I decided to go back to school - the development of web browsers - and now I make a living at a career that didn't exist when I started grad school. It was a happy coincidence that I was studying information management at the same time that the Information Superhighway was being constructed right under our noses.
Interesting idea for exploration: Are the predictions we make about our personal lives more, or less, accurate than social scientists can make about the probable paths of whole nations?