Word: nostradamus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nostradamus were alive today, his job would be safe, at least from the misguided futurists on Wall Street. Exhibit A is a gutsy little tome penned 10 years ago called A View from the Year 2000. As a device to forecast the '90s, Shearson Lehman Hutton looked back on a decade that hadn't yet happened. The first thing you notice in the report, though, isn't some way-out prediction--it's that the names Shearson and Hutton are about as familiar to investors today as were Dell and Cisco to analysts a decade ago--which...
...waiting when one pans out. What about the next 10 years? Think Internet infrastructure (it will be built even if every dotcom fails), wireless telecom as the world goes mobile, leisure and medicine as baby boomers age, and small stocks and foreign stocks as a new cycle unfolds. Nostradamus, move over after all. See time.com/personal for more on stock groups. E-mail Dan at kadlec@time.com He's on CNNfn Tuesdays...
...other far-off prophecies that should have already happened haven't come true, either. We passed right by 1984 without falling under the watchful eye of Big Brother, as was predicted, or at least forewarned, in George Orwell's 1984. And how many predictions do you think the great Nostradamus missed? It seems that the only source to credit him with any degree of accuracy has been the Weekly World News...
...with new words and its own dance steps, tops the charts in 15 countries and request lists in the U.S. But Chicagoans are betting on the "milly," a funky nine-step dance (instructions above) they have learned in droves and will perform on New Year's Eve. Not even Nostradamus could have predicted this...
...Nostradamus is the subject of more than 40,000 Web pages and countless books, and his writings are studied throughout the world. But was he right? We'll soon see. In 1555 he made his most precise prediction, which can be translated as: "The year 1999, seven months, from the sky there will come the Great King of Terror to resuscitate the Great King of the Mongols." Nostrabuffs say this means that July will be full of earthquakes, tsunamis and satellites crashing into Earth. Then again, here are other things happening in July that he could have been talking about...