Word: predictive
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...COVER STORY WHAT'S NEXT Meet a few brave - and possibly foolhardy - people who make a living trying to predict the future...
Bernstein says it is impossible to predict what will happen to individual students under the new system...
Ganz said PreVote does have the potential to reveal which party mobilizes supporters better but hesitated to predict how the site’s results will influence swing voters...
...Schwartz flinches when you call any of them predictions, since each scenario is only one of a set. The Greening of Russia scenario that foresaw the rise of Gorbachev, for example, was balanced against the New Stalinism, which imagined a hard-line Soviet backlash. "If you try to predict something," says Schwartz, "you end up with very conventional ideas. Scenarios help you anticipate surprises...
...following pages, you will meet some of them. There's Hiroshi Tsutsumi, who tries to predict the behavior of one of the most fickle, most influential demographics in the world: the Tokyo hipster. Former jazz musician (and current Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has been staring the future in the face for years and has to put our money (and his) where his mouth is. Peter Schwartz is the man whom Senators, CEOS and movie directors go to for previews of the future. He predicted the rise of OPEC in the 1970s and the fall of the World Trade Center...