Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.
Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
The best way to predict the future is to change it.
There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.