One cannot adequately predict the future, because the future is fluid and any and ALL possibilities are open. The past is also "open" even though the events happened in a certain manner and you remember them a certain way. The present is pretty much upto free will choices, and the only way to predict the future is to KNOW and unerstand what happened in the present/immediate past... I'm talking everything including a molecule-by-molecule scan of the entire planet and the entire cosmos. Usually when you have "premonition" or a "vision" etc... and you somehow think it's a prediction, it's only a *POSSIBLE* or maybe a *PROBABLE* future, due to the situation/events of the present and what they are leading up to. Those who can predict into 2000 years in advance, are actually MANIPULATING the events to be consistent with their "prediction", that is all. One simply cannot PREDICT the future, due to the free will variable.