Historian Tony McMahon tries to get to the bottom of why it has been long believed that there are a select few humans with soothsaying abilities.

My friends are sick of me recommending Naomi Alderman’s novel “The Future” to them. But I can’t help it, because every other week there’s another news story that feels straight out of the bestselling ...

A team of mathematicians has recently taken steps to improve our ability to predict future data. It’s not exactly ...

In “A Century of Tomorrows,” Glenn Adamson offers a hurtling history of the art, science and big business of looking ahead. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

"Life isn’t chess, a game of perfect information, one that can in theory be 'solved.' It's poker, a game where you're trying to make the best decisions using the limited information you have. " When ...

Political and other prognosticators are busy predicting the future, as usual. Never mind calculating how wrong they have been in the past. Our desire to know what’s coming sometimes overcomes sound ...

What do we really know about the future? Probably not as much as we think. We search past patterns for clues about the future. We review statistics to provide information about trends. We consult ...