prognostication

“You’re just the person I came to see, but it seems you found me first. Have you acquired skills of prognostication, like our friend Madame Ionesco?”

For unless one has the gift of prognostication, are not all events at least somewhat unexpected?

“Obviously, the season went the way it went,” veteran third baseman Max Muncy said of a 93-win campaign that, despite including another NL West title, qualified as a disappointment compared to their preseason prognostications.

In Arya’s view, practical needs such as power, data-center space and water will be more of a limiting factor to the AI infrastructure build-out “than the desires/prognostications of disruptive AI companies.”

In the face of constant negative prognostications and outright attacks by pundits and politicos of all stripes, how is it that California, like Sisyphus, keeps pushing such a giant boulder up an ever-growing mountain?