Documentary The Trouble with Experts

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

As filmmaker Josh Freed’s entertaining new documentary The Trouble with Experts, reminds us, we are all addicted to experts. They tell us what to eat, how to vote, raise our kids, fix our homes, buy our wines, interpret political events and, until recently, choose the right stocks. They’re all over the media telling us what to think, because there's just too much information for us to sort out ourselves. So we often cede our own opinions to “them” because, well … they’re experts, so they know better than us. Or do they?

http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/the-trouble-with-experts.html


True experts too boring for television audience
 He believes there’s something in human nature that craves the security of predicting what always seems to be a cruel, hard future. “It goes back to seers and oracles and clairvoyants reading clues in entrails.
“But the fact is, experts are guessing. Anybody can predict the predictable. We may see the obvious coming, but we can’t read the future. The big things in life are unreadable. In the end, we’re all idiots.’’

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/True+experts+boring+television+audience/5472632/story.html