I live in the UK in which the girlfriend of a childrens TV presenter (Mark Speight) died of a cocaine overdose approximately a month ago. A few days ago it was reported that the TV presenter had gone missing. I told a colleague at work about the work about the news and the first thing that popped into my head is that he would be found dead. Today they found his dead body.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV host Mark Speight 'found dead'
Is it worth predicting the near future of current events, they can be easily tested. If you accurate enough you could write the future news and change the way its reported. For example, people will be shocked to hear how the TV presenter but if newspapers predict the near future people wont be shocked. If this was carried out on a mass scale across the media once a news story breaks people will have an idea of the outcome.
Of course in some respects its ridiculous because news channels thrive on BREAKING NEWS but it could make a very different world if using the information as in this story the media and society had a clear outcome of events.
It could change society greatly, for example the girlfriend may never have taken cocaine.