I find that the past is very easy to predict. The future requires extensive knowledge, good theoretical foundations and lots of luck. If anything, I see lots of uncertainty. Brexit is a great example. Who could have anticipated Boris Johnson 's constitutionally risky no deal gambit and its spectacular failure? Will the Conservative Party continue in something resembling its current form? These questions and more depend on predicting the actions of unpredictable people.
On the other hand, many well -understood natural phenomena are completely predictable. What time will the Sun rise where you are in 100 years? The difference between these problems is uncertainty. I'm the natural world, many individual events are only predictable in the aggregate: quantum phenomena, earthquakes, etc.
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