Predicting is fun.
Gather a couple of proofs and you can make your own sensational prediction that goes against the popular belief.
For example, I predict that huge profits in the future will be offline again. The internet business fad will fade eventually. It may be the most exciting place to have huge earnings, but it’s the hardest one too, statistically speaking.
Stuart, Jason and Seth have given me arguments to support this.
On the other hand, the internet lets you reach a lot of people fast and cheap. Make $1 from each costumer, and you have a millionaire business. Maybe we’ll see a bigger boom of these business models…
You see the problem with predictions, don’t you? There are always arguments to support them or refute them. Otherwise they’d be facts.
It’s not about being right about your predictions, that’s not the point.
It’s about doing it. Taking chances and going with them.
Bottom Line: Predict away. That’s your only shot for a breakthrough.
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Since I’m here and it’s my only shot for a breakthrough I would like to predict that simultaneously Daneel Harris and Mila Kunis will decide they want me. After a battle for the ages, both will concede to share me. At this point I will leverage their attractiveness and the momentum from the fight to get my own reality TV show similar to Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory will I will effectively be paid lots of money for doing nothing.
Oh, and you’re right, all of these things will take place offline.
Back in reality, I think you’re all right and that the HUGE profits will be made offline. But, I also think that more members of Gen Y, especially after this recession will spend a little more consciously. Without the desire for as many lavish goods, and with a strong desire to have more freedom will many people start sacrificing the big paychecks for their own online gigs? I think we could see that as well.
R
And so it begins…
You know Ryan, I’ve been there, and they’re both kind of boring. I had a blast with Keira Knightley and Cheryl Cole though, something about British ladies…
I’m with you in your prediction. There will be a better distribution of everything, including profits and spending.
Another problem with the arguments for/against many things, they rely on statistical data (I hated my statistics class…)
For example…let’s just say there’s an 2% chance that Ryan will steal Mila Kunis away from that kid on Home Alone. There’s a 98% chance that she probably doesn’t know he exists (we’ll go with “yet” at this point!) So you present the case as either:
- No way in hell this is going to happen, seriously. There’s only a 2% chance that she even knows who he is.
OR
- Yeah, apparently there was this really weird, snowballs chance in hell thing that happened and Mila Kunis MIGHT know who Ryan is and they are totally going to meet up next time he’s in California.
I’ll leave it up to everyone to make their own predictions at this point.
So what you’re saying is THERE’S a chance.
2%! Man, that’s generous…