Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
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The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition lays out five distinct stages that all people must go through on their way to becoming experts.
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In 1949 experts predicted women will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck drive.
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"X-rays will prove to be a hoax." lord kelvin. WikiMedia Commons. - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883. Source: Wikipedia...
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