But social media has changed the company-customer equation faster than anyone could have predicted even five years ago.
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We do know that the Arctic ice cap is melting faster than was predicted even five years ago.
What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago.
Furthermore, while 80% of those interviewed predicted even greater complexity ahead, less than 50% felt adequately prepared to deal with it.
Robbins predicted that even in a bad economy, parents on the go would spend extra money to buy organic products for their children.
Allied to the effect of people living longer, and the greater cost of pension regulation, the NAPF predicted that even more schemes would close in the coming years.
Chrysler even predicted that May sales would hit an annual rate of 15.5 million.
The cost of private motoring is predicted to fall even further, widening the gap with the increasing cost of public transport.
Our central bank has neither prevented nor even predicted this prolonged period of excess inflation, which has so devalued the average pay packet.
In the 1980s, they like to point out, Mr Gore focused on global warming: he even predicted, amid much derision at the time, the demise of the internal combustion engine.
It will accentuate India's problems, with the monsoon rains, which supply over 50% of much of India's annual precipitation in just 15 days, predicted to become even more contracted and unpredictable.
Some experts said it was surprising that any increase in cancer was even predicted and believe that the low-dose radiation people in Fukushima received hasn't been proven to raise the chances of cancer.
Many predicted continued volatility, even those who anticipated stocks to show gains or losses.
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Conversely, unforeseen social factors meant that mobile phones, strikingly absent from much early 20th-century science fiction, spread faster than even technologists predicted.
During President Jimmy Carter's term, Tulis recalls, natural gas prices were inflated because the Administration predicted severe shortages and even mandated that gas be restricted to home heating and cooking.
Actually, making calls over the internet is proving more popular than even geeks once predicted.
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Weekly jobless claims fell last week by 8, 000, even as economists predicted they would increase.
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And indeed, even those who predicted correctly that Obama would win got most of the swing states wrong.
Not even the arrangers predicted the storm that would hit the credit markets.
To qualify as a disastrous forecast, a major event has to be predicted and held on to even as it fails to materialize.
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"He took over the national team when it was a hot potato and lots of people predicted we wouldn't even qualify for South Africa, " she added.
But Dr Emanuel's point is that even the worst predicted rise will be lost as noise in the variation in hurricane numbers from year to year.
Even contrarians who predicted that a 5, 000 Dow would kill the rally have put away their gloomy predictions and cheered as New York's blue-chip index soars toward 8, 000.
Passenger numbers are already growing faster than Virgin predicted and they should grow even faster by 2005 when Virgin plans to run trains every 15 minutes between London and Birmingham, taking just over an hour for the journey.
As a result, the report found that its debt would probably peak at about 186% of GDP in 2013, instead of the 160% predicted three months earlier, even with a 21% haircut on debt held by private creditors that was agreed on in July.
Even so, Etzler predicted that some would greet his proposals with ridicule, and he was right.
Yet even here it is predicted that 2013 will be a year of stagnation.
He was proved right, even though no one predicted the full folly of America's subsequent policies.
The company previously predicted profits in either 2012 or even 2013.
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