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A list of the predictions this guy got right (at the end of the article, and sprinkled throughout) is near useless when unaccompanied by a list of everything he got wrong.


Absolutely. Loses credibility by not discussing what he got wrong, and then calling this a prediction:

"Predicted China’s reclaiming of Hong Kong and the exact manner the handover would take place, 12 years before it happened."

Britain had a 99 year lease which began in 1898. Predicting it would end in 1997 requires slightly-more-simple math than game theory. I would posit most people could have predicted that more than 12 years before it happened.


Just like the real Nostradamus.




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