> Predicting things 5 years too early is often as useless as not predicting anything. It depends on what type of thing you are predicting and why. Even somethi

> Predicting things 5 years too early is often as useless as not predicting anything. It depends on what type of thing you are predicting and why. Even something as simple as "Enron will implode" in 1995 has very different levels of usefulness if you are planning to short a stock versus figuring out what stock to buy and hold in your retirement account.