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Decrease text size Increase text size  This article originally
appeared on TomDispatch  About the Author  John Feffer John
Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute
for Policy Studies, is the author of North Korea...  Also by the
Author  Being a futurologist means never having to say you're
sorry. Our predictions always come true eventually--or, if they
don't, well, how quickly people forget. Look at Newsweek's
George Will. He predicted that the Berlin Wall would endure, and
in an article published on the very day in 1989 that the Germans
were tearing it down. That should have been enough to revoke his
futurology license and demote him to sports writing. But no,
almost three decades later he's still peering into his crystal
ball.  Never apologize, never look back: that's our motto.  But
this time--think of it as the exception that proves the rule--I
really screwed up. We all did.  If you look back at the
predictions we made