1. What would you, personally, most like to know about the future? 
Phrase your answer as a question, and explain it in just a few sentences.  The question can relate to your own personal future, or a societal-level future.

2. Think about ways that people (not necessarily you) anywhere, today, would seek predictive answers to the question you posed above. Write just a few paragraphs (not more than the equivalent of 1 page) about the predictive systems the person seeking to the...