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There's nothing particularly interesting about old articles that appear to have predicted current events.

When it happens, someone will dig up the old article saying "are we ready for the floobledasch EVENT?!!!"

> There's nothing particularly interesting about old articles that appear to have predicted current events.

There is, if:

- they had valid grounds for making the prediction

- something could have been done to better prepare for the event

and

- the warnings were recklessly ignored.

Prepared or not, I think there is some element of it being really hard to get funding to go fix things proactively vs. tapping into a Federal organization which will fund the aftermath.

I wonder if there have been studies comparing the costs? The hurricane is coming either way and there will be a need to cleanup.

Its the same in some software organizations, fixing things so they are right takes a lot of convincing vs. band-aids when the problem comes up.

YAGNI. What a great gravestone inscription.

Let me predict right here, right now, that someday something bad will happen somewhere and someone will be unprepared for it. You heard it hear first.

I dunno, people/society have a tendency to ignore problems and then freak out when they cause issues.

Maybe if we keep hammering on about how people predicted this stuff the next prediction will get listened to a bit mroe.

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