Predict your future by controlling future outcomes?

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 29 March 2008 by member JackSparrow

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What if we had the ability to read other people's thoughts as soon as they are conceived? Wouldn't that be a great way to control our future? Say you asked someone to do something and while they take the time to answer with a yes or no, you can know what they're thinking, what holds them back or what excites them about your request! Wouldn't that kind of knowledge give you the power to shape any future outcome to your advantage?

If you could control the way a certain outcome will play out, isn't that a better alternative to our lack of ability as humans to predict the future? If being able to predict the future is impossible, is being able to control it or at least shape its direction the next best thing to it?

There are many movies and science-fiction scenarios out there in which people can either predict the future or know it in advance. I think it would be far more interesting to have a movie or a scenario where people can read other people's thoughts and adjust their behavior based on that information and not based on advance knowledge of the future.

If you had the ability to predict your future

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 28 February 2008 by member mrhogg

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Which events would you not want to be able to predict? While we often wish that we could predict what will happen in the future, I don't think that we would be happy if such wish was realized. There must be some things about our future we would not want to be able to foresee. What would these be?