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John Robson: My New Millennium Predictions 25 Years On

John Robson: My New Millennium Predictions 25 Years On
The New York Times Square Ball sits atop 1 Times Square in New York ahead of the 2000 New Year’s Eve celebration, on Dec. 30, 1999. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
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We are famously warned that “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Attributing quotations afterward is hard too; this one’s been ascribed to Niels Bohr, Yogi Berra, and more. But if you’re in the pundit trade, politics, business, or just alive, you must try to form some kind of judgment about what’s coming. So as a historian, I’d like to make some forecasts.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”