What can be predicted is process, organization, integration and continuation of kind rather than specifics. The scale of prediction has changed. Foresight is a matter of interpretation rather than information. There are tools of interpretation that provide foresight which is not merely extended hindsight. This is a world of emergent cause and effect with constant occurrences which are not extensions of the past but creations of the past.
Emergence is a new kind of cause and effect.
It is the cause and effect of living entities and the phenomena related to them. 4 Examples include intelligence from a grouping of neurones, life from a collection of cells, prices and a marketplace from a collection of merchants, Internet from a collection of computers, the phenomenon of Microsoft from a simple programme and a few suppliers to an exploding market. Consider how it is possible for the Swedish company Stora to have survived for over 700 years. Obviously it could not have predicted a future this long. Conditions in the world have dramatically changed many times in that time period.