nostradamus and his prophecies

I believe Nostradamus said that bell bottom pants are going to make a comeback. *fingers crossed*

In his time the way he wrote them they can be interpreted after the fact in so many ways it seems like they predict the future but they don't. It's just entertaining French poetry. Probably the next few big things we see will be nanotechnology in medicine, commercial space travel, better economic fairness across the globe, renewed energy sciences. Think. Computers have put all those things in reach. It's only reasonable to assume that these things are coming.

Oh they're all very vague.
More like observations on human behaviour that are often repeated regularly.

Prices will raise, politicians will philander, you too will get old.

Who is he?