[garethp]

Your right, but I find that the news never go into details, for example I haven't head anything about if there will be any racial tensions if a black president is elected or if it will change the way society views women if a women is elected president. (women are paid less in the work place)

The news dont seems to come up with different options or outcomes of what could happen. Im convinced that humans have done so much, from inventing the light bulb, mapping DNA, internal surgery without cutting the flesh...endless discoveries (many of which by accident) which is all part of evolution, I think that one day we will be able to accurately predict the near future from very recent events.

Here is an example, one "big" breaking news story today is that Pete Doherty, a famous musician, in England has been photographed in prison under the influence of heroin, he only went in a few days ago. The thing is that he went to prison because of his past drug abuse and its been reported that drugs are freely available and cheap in prison so why are people surprised? Why weren't measures taken to ensure he couldn't get access to drugs. I'm convinced that this wouldn't of happened if the newspapers predicted and published headlines that he could take heroine even though he was in prison instead of printing headlines that he was sent to prison. The prison system would of then reacted to the headlines and put more measures into place to make sure he (as a celebrity) wouldn't get access to such drugs. This must be highly embarrassing for the prison system and people could well be sacked. Only an astute prison manager would put extra measures in place to ensure he was closely watched. We would have learnt from a highly probable future and reacted to it. Preventing Pete Doherty from getting access to heroin.

I think the media "deliberately" do this. The reporters are sitting there saying to themselves "it was only a matter of time" or "it was so obivious" yet they will report shock headlines about how he was photographed in prison taking herion. We need to overcome this step if we want to be able to "learn from a highly possible future".