2021-02-07 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I am predicting the future thus: As soon as possible, big data will be used to actually predict future as it is seen in the real world. I am not talking about minor things like predicting some up or down in the stock. I am thinking wars and such. This technology will fast become more powerful than any would imagine. The reason it becomes powerful is that it doesn't have to use people as it's dataset, but instead it can just use the information fed to the people and the related information about the effects of the information on the people. I expect there are two possibilities. Either there is something "magical" in how the future society is created, or there isn't. This can be reflected by the look at the Free Will discussion. Either people have a soul that can break physical laws or they don't. On the scale of the whole society, there can be some Butterly effects, but I don't think they would be so complex that they couldn't be comfortably calculated. The only people who you may have to take into account are some eclectic thinkers who by their originality fall outside the algorithmic categories. But, lucky for the algorith, we are getting these people booted out as fast as they can be discovered. ------------------------------------------------------------------