Sentences with phrase «dire predictions of doom»

In the late 1960s, Paul Ehrlich famously made dire predictions of doom, based on his attempts to model the biosphere and our relation to it, which failed to materialise.

While libraries have done well for themselves despite the dire predictions of doom following the digital revolution — largely by reinventing themselves as providers of other community needs while still making books their focus — there have been some highly ominous predictions for libraries in the current political climate.

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My doom - and - gloom stems from the dire predictions of Aviv Ovadya, the technologist who predicted the fake news epidemic, and now fears an «information apocalypse» as the trolls turbo - charge their efforts with AI.

But it seems to match the underlying dynamics of the moment far better than Republicans» rooted - in - 2009, dire predictions of Democratic doom, though there's no time to waste in mobilizing the Democratic base.

Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding the Wii U, Nintendo can at least draw consolation from the success (little remarked upon) of the 3DS handheld — achieved despite dire predictions at its launch that handheld games consoles would no longer be able to cope with the rise of mobile phones as gaming platforms: «Some indie developers have told us that when they offer the same software on iOS and Android, and in the eShop on Nintendo 3DS, the 3DS eShop version sells most.

Back in the past when all those dire predictions about the coming doom of CAGW were made — if those scientists (I use the term loosely in their case) had then the data we have now — WOULD THOSE PREDICTIONS HAVE EVERpredictions about the coming doom of CAGW were made — if those scientists (I use the term loosely in their case) had then the data we have now — WOULD THOSE PREDICTIONS HAVE EVERPREDICTIONS HAVE EVER BEEN MADE?

SINCE Copenhagen the intensity of doom and gloom [D&G] has been ratcheted up with such anthropogenic global warming luminaries as Will Steffan and David Karoly declaring their previous predictions not dire enough and so have been superseded by much worse predictions.