People have no idea where things are going.
If they did, Schwinn would still be the main producer of bicycles in the U.S., General Motors would still own 61% of the car market in the U.S., Zenith and Philco would still be huge producers of television sets in the U.S., Apple would own the computer markets, and WordPerfect would be the main word processor.
Los Angeles wouldn't have jammed freeways, New Orleans would have avoided a broken levee and hundreds of deaths, major U.S. Airlines wouldn't have gone bankrupt, Japan wouldn't have attacked Pearl Harbor, cable operators would have kept their prices lower.. and