Even if it is influential person, we should not belive to their opinions because it doesn't have enough basis and evidence to what they are saying. Their predictions are pure hunch so we should not follow on what they are saying.
actually nowadays this has turned into a common thing where we see they call completely random people as "influential experts" but when you check out the history of that person you can see he wasn't even around for that long. not to mention that following what they said, if you have a tiny bit of experience, you can see how full of shit they are!