As CEO of a think tank of the Japanese style dedicated to make future risk and strategic scenarios, I’ve forecasted the future since 2005. Every time a lot of things have happened since then, I always have the same feeling again and again: The history of the human being consists of fractals. Things happen one after another, while significant events repeat themselves. What makes the whole things invisible and complicated to be understood, is the fact that ongoing events aren’t quite the same ones we experienced previously. The former phenomena are quite similar to the latter, nevertheless, they aren’t identical with each other. Some leading thinkers were fully aware of this rule and formulated as follows: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/d1021/20150320#1426847968
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/d1021/20150317#1426588567
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/d1021/20150119#1421663680
