[Houshalter]

Just take the last thing in this article. It links to an obscure blog by some crazy person that hasn't updated in 4 years.

What's the point of this? Cruelly mocking some mentally ill person's posts from years ago, as proof that "the future is unpredictable"?

Or claiming brexit is economically worse than covid. Massively disrupting the world economy for 2 years is less bad than some regulatory changes in a single country? "A crewed moonbase by 2031"?

[scatters]

Stross is writing as a UK-based author; obviously Brexit is having a worse effect than Covid on the UK economy.

[Houshalter]

The UK is still under covid restrictions and went into a huge amount of debt during the crisis. The events are not remotely comparable.