Comment by jasonmaydie

I'm not against predicting things, there's great value in them but usually there is some science behind those predictions.

For example people who manufacture things usually offer a warranty period because they have a fairly accurate prediction model how long it will last before it breaks.

There is value in coming up with a mathematical model to predict the chances of a person paying back a loan used to buy a house.

Insurance companies run prediction models for all kinds of human behavior based on statistics.

But what is the value in random pointless predictions about when flying cars will be at thing? There's no math behind it other than intuition.