The future is something to be wagered on, something to be guided, and when hundreds of strangers look at your life, great things will happen.
"The future has always been an opaque crystal. Shamans and popes have always seen the obvious, predicting seasons as well as the inevitabilities of life and death. Then came science and computers, creating experts trained in every narrow field, and the future was a little less opaque. But even the most expert mind, armed with the finest tools, is limited. Is hamstrung. Every mind is finite; bias kills the most gifted visionary; and wishful thinking can do nothing but distort and then blind. It wasn’t until humans and their smartest machines began to place wagers, risking money against tomorrow, that the future became a little more knowable, and workable, and for the serious player, a source of financial blood."
Robert Reed is a prolific science fiction author. Best known for the Great Ship series, his novella, "A Billion Eves," won a Hugo Award in 2007.
Genre: Science Fiction
"The future has always been an opaque crystal. Shamans and popes have always seen the obvious, predicting seasons as well as the inevitabilities of life and death. Then came science and computers, creating experts trained in every narrow field, and the future was a little less opaque. But even the most expert mind, armed with the finest tools, is limited. Is hamstrung. Every mind is finite; bias kills the most gifted visionary; and wishful thinking can do nothing but distort and then blind. It wasn’t until humans and their smartest machines began to place wagers, risking money against tomorrow, that the future became a little more knowable, and workable, and for the serious player, a source of financial blood."
Robert Reed is a prolific science fiction author. Best known for the Great Ship series, his novella, "A Billion Eves," won a Hugo Award in 2007.
Genre: Science Fiction
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