
Prediction of the future is always a hazardous undertaking and brings to mind a remark attributed to the thirteenth-century Castilian king, Alfonso X, when the Ptolemaic astronomical concepts had been explained: “If the Lord Almighty had consulted me, I should have recommended something simpler!”
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