{"id":49245,"date":"2025-12-03T06:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/predicting-the-future-are-you-mad\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:09:52","slug":"predicting-the-future-are-you-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/predicting-the-future-are-you-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the future: are you mad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take pride in how many things I\u2019ve predicted in payments and finance. that have come true from Digital Banking to cloud to BaaS to crypto and more, but I didn\u2019t predict a lot of things, such as the financial crisis of 2008, the sovereign debt crisis that followed and the pandemic that came after&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2025\/12\/predicting-the-future-are-you-mad\/\">Predicting the future: are you mad?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take pride in how many things I\u2019ve predicted in payments and finance. that have come true from Digital Banking to cloud to BaaS to crypto and more, but I didn\u2019t predict a lot of things, such as the financial crisis of 2008, the sovereign debt crisis that followed and the pandemic that came after&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}