{"product_id":"predictions-paul-clargo-9798176462401","title":"Predictions: The Future Will Tell","description":"PREDICTIONS: The Future Will Tell\u003cp\u003eWhat if we stopped making predictions that can never be proved wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost books about the future make broad claims. Artificial intelligence will transform work. Climate change will reshape geopolitics. Energy systems will change. Wars will evolve. Technology will alter how we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut how would we know whether those predictions were actually right?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePredictions: The Future Will Tell\u003c\/b\u003e takes a different approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Clargo sets out 100 questions about what happens next - covering wars and conflict, food and water, climate, transport, energy, geopolitics, finance, technology, artificial intelligence and human capability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe important difference is that these are not simply questions about what might happen. They are attempts to create predictions that can eventually be tested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach prediction is built around a specific proposition, a baseline, a measurable outcome, a defined time horizon and evidence that could prove the prediction wrong. Where the evidence supports greater confidence, the book says so. Where uncertainty is high, it says that too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the future cannot be known with certainty, the objective is not to sound confident. It is to be precise about what is known, what is inferred, what remains uncertain and what would have to happen for the prediction to succeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA prediction such as \"carbon pricing will continue to grow\" is almost impossible to falsify. A prediction that more than half of the world's emissions will be covered by a national carbon price by a specified year is different. It has a threshold. It has a deadline. It can succeed - or fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat distinction runs throughout the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is part prediction register, part investigation and part long-term experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also explores why prediction is difficult even when good data exists. People respond to expectations. Governments change policy. Businesses change investment. Technologies accelerate or stall. Unexpected events alter the conditions on which a forecast was based. Sometimes a prediction can even influence the behaviour that determines whether it comes true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside the 100-question framework, the book records a smaller set of propositions connected to Paul Clargo's wider work on entrepreneurship, organised human capability and the development of human systems. These provide another test: can ideas developed before the evidence emerged survive contact with evidence that arrives later?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book does not promise certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt makes a more useful promise: \u003cb\u003ethe predictions are recorded before the answers are known.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat means some will be right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome will be wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome will be partly right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd some may reveal that the question itself was harder than expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is not a weakness of the experiment. It is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe future gets the final word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe prediction is made now.\u003cbr\u003eThe evidence comes later.\u003cbr\u003eThe future will tell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Clargo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798176462401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Paul Clargo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780124709119,"sku":"9798176462401","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a8975942-8a7d-4fe6-8e1b-9b4badab74e7.jpg?v=1792949431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/predictions-paul-clargo-9798176462401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}