Anonymous ID: 514292 Oct. 4, 2022, 10:32 a.m. No.17631274   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1281 >>1293 >>1299 >>1390

>https://voxday.net/2022/10/04/predictions-2/

Predictions

>Posted on October 4, 2022 by VD

 

I thought I’d put these recent predictions, made in the aftermath of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkiv region, on the record for future consideration. One can’t help but wonder what they would have made of the apparent success of the Ardennes Offensive if they had been there to observe it unfolding in 1944.

 

“A much bigger Russian collapse will unfold in the coming days.”

— Francis Fukuyama

 

“No amount of shambolic mobilization, which is the only way to describe it, no amount of annexation, no amount of even veiled nuclear threats can actually get Putin out of this particular situation. He is losing, and the battlefield reality he faces is, I think, irreversible.”

— Gen. David Petraeus

 

“This is a tremendous victory for the Ukrainians. And it’s a victory that I think that they could turn into a cascading series of defeats of Russian forces. What we might be at here is really at the precipice of really the collapse of the Russian army in Ukraine.”

— Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster

 

“I think that everything we’ve seen is suggestive of a near collapse of the Soviet military, like a near total collapse, and I think that the United States and NATO probably sees that this is an opportunity for a complete collapse of the Russian military and they’re going to take it… I think the battle for Ukraine is over.”

— Scott Adams

Anonymous ID: 514292 Oct. 4, 2022, 11:11 a.m. No.17631472   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1476 >>1497

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcegAH8uYog

The Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet’s mistakes | Matthew Ball

>15,619 views Oct 2, 2022

Expert Matthew Ball explains how the Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet.

The Metaverse does not yet exist. At the moment, it is a vision of the future of the internet.

One problem facing its development is that current problems with the internet — like misinformation, privacy issues, and security breaches — have not been solved. Inside the Metaverse, these problems could be amplified.

Thankfully, developers, consumers, voters, and regulators have the power to implement change.

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About Matthew Ball:

Matthew Ball is the CEO of Epyllion, a diversified holding company which makes angel investments, provides advisory services, and produces television, films, and video games. Ball is also a Venture Partner at Makers Fund, Senior Advisor to KKR, Senior Advisor toMcKinsey& Company, and sits on the board of numerous start-ups. His first book, “The Metaverse and How it Will Revolutionize Everything”, was published in July 2022 and became an instant national and international bestseller. Ball is also an “Occasional Contributor” to The Economist, holds bylines at Bloomberg, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and wrote the August 8, 2022 cover story for Time Magazine.

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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_&_Company

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and largest of the "Big Three" management consultancies (MBB), the world's three largest strategy consulting firms by revenue. The firm mainly focuses on the finances and operations of their clients.

 

Under the leadership of Marvin Bower, McKinsey expanded into Europe during the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, McKinsey's Fred Gluck—along with Boston Consulting Group's Bruce Henderson, Bill Bain at Bain & Company, and Harvard Business School's Michael Porter—transformed corporate culture.[4][5] A 1975 publication by McKinsey's John L. Neuman introduced the business practice of "overhead value analysis" that contributed to a downsizing trend that eliminated many jobs in middle management.[6][7]

 

McKinsey has a notoriously competitive hiring process,[8][9] and is widely seen as one of the most selective employers in the world.[10] McKinsey recruits primarily from the world's top business schools[11][12][13] and was one of the first management consultancies to recruit a limited number of candidates with advanced academic degrees (e.g. PhD, MD) and deep field expertise, and who have demonstrated business acumen and analytical skills.[14][15] McKinsey publishes a business magazine, the McKinsey Quarterly.

 

The firm has been associated with a number of notable scandals including the collapse of Enron in 2001,[16] 2007–2008 financial crisis,[16] and facilitating state capture in South Africa.[17] It has also drawn controversy for involvement with Purdue Pharma,[18] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement[19] and authoritarian regimes.[20][21] In February 2021, McKinsey paid $600 million to settle investigations into its role in promoting sales of OxyContin and fueling the greater opioid epidemic.[22]…