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A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t:
A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t:
*The elimination of boom and bust — © Gordon Brown, April 2000.
*We have eliminated boom and bust. — © Gordon Brown, April 2000.
*How you value businesses without reference to cashflow or profitability — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[dotcom bust]] in 2000
*It’s the end of history. We [[libtard]]s have won. — © Francis Fukuyama, 1992
*We have efficiently allocated risk to those best placed to bear it through [[credit derivatives]] — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[global financial crisis]], 2004-8
*How you value businesses without reference to cashflow or profitability. — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[dotcom bust]] in 2000
*Mark-to-market accounting of future income streams in a market that doesn’t exist yet is sensible — © [[Arthur Andersen]]<ref>Who? Ed.</ref> [[Jeff Skilling]] and the crazy gang at [[Enron]], continually up to October 2001
*We have efficiently allocated risk to those best placed to bear it through [[credit derivatives]]. — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[global financial crisis]], 2004-8
*The [[Singularity]] is definitely going to happen, and the universe will wake up, rewriting the laws of physics as we know them etc. © {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}, 2005.
*Mark-to-market accounting of future income streams in a market that doesn’t exist yet is sensible. — © [[Arthur Andersen]]<ref>Who? Ed.</ref> [[Jeff Skilling]] and the crazy gang at [[Enron]], continually up to October 2001
*[[Software is eating the world]]: © Marc Andreessen, 2009
*The [[Singularity]] is definitely going to happen, and the universe will wake up, rewriting the laws of physics as we know them etc. © {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}, 2005.
*The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! [[Chess]]-playing supercomputers!  —© {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, {{br|A World Without Work}}  
*[[Software is eating the world]]. — © Marc Andreessen, 2009
*The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! [[Chess]]-playing supercomputers!  — © {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, {{br|A World Without Work}}  
*Everyone is going to be nice to each other now Generation Z is in control and we have taken out and shot all the old white men. — © Every millennial, and millennial apologist ever, 2018 -.


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*[[The dog in the night time]]
*[[The dog in the night time]]
*[[Technological unemployment]]
*[[Technological unemployment]]

Revision as of 08:47, 6 August 2020

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A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t:

  • We have eliminated boom and bust. — © Gordon Brown, April 2000.
  • It’s the end of history. We libtards have won. — © Francis Fukuyama, 1992
  • How you value businesses without reference to cashflow or profitability. — © every investment banker ever, in the run-up to the dotcom bust in 2000
  • We have efficiently allocated risk to those best placed to bear it through credit derivatives. — © every investment banker ever, in the run-up to the global financial crisis, 2004-8
  • Mark-to-market accounting of future income streams in a market that doesn’t exist yet is sensible. — © Arthur Andersen[1] Jeff Skilling and the crazy gang at Enron, continually up to October 2001
  • The Singularity is definitely going to happen, and the universe will wake up, rewriting the laws of physics as we know them etc. — © Ray Kurzweil, 2005.
  • Software is eating the world. — © Marc Andreessen, 2009
  • The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! Chess-playing supercomputers! — © Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work
  • Everyone is going to be nice to each other now Generation Z is in control and we have taken out and shot all the old white men. — © Every millennial, and millennial apologist ever, 2018 -.

See also

  1. Who? Ed.