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Past data can’t predict the future – for all the new technology, complex datasets and AI, the image of tomorrow remains blurry, at best.

Take the Oxford University mathematical model which promised to predict the outcome of the World Cup: England did indeed lose in the quarter finals – but the finalists will not be Brazil and Belgium, with the South American team gaining its sixth title, as predicted.

As Oxford’s Maths Institute said (more or less), where there is sport, there ...

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