Predictions Not Likely To Come True – Or Maybe They Are
There are lots of supernatural ways to predict the future. None of them have produced convincing results, although they do give people a way to free themselves from stress and to make important life decisions. Some critics of such things would say that the important thing is that predictions don’t stand up to scrutiny while others would say that psychics, astrologers, tarot readers and others who say they can see the future have performed a service for society since the beginning of time.
Prediction is not easy even in narrow fields of expertise. The internet is full of lists of predictions that made people look silly, actors who turned down roles in classic movies, producers who could not see potential in movie stars of the future. Experts pronouncing that the phone and the computer were not worth considering. Why do we bother trying to predict the future? Why do we need to know the future? Here is a collection of articles on predicting the future.
Here is a video featuring a 1967 view of the future. They got the details of the technology wrong – how could they know that stuff? But the general prediction of a world where we get things done with a minimum of human contact is about how things have turned out. Maybe it’s wish fulfillment.