A number of Science Fiction works talk about how prediction is more accurate the further out you go into the future, but how predictions in the short term are n

A number of Science Fiction works talk about how prediction is more accurate the further out you go into the future, but how predictions in the short term are not so much. Like the episode of Deep Space 9 where Bashier works with the other genetically modified humans. They talk about how eventually the galaxy will come to an end due to entropy, but their predictions for the Dominion War had too many variables to accurately predict close up. Psycho-history and Foundation is sorta like this, but I think Issac Asimov doesn't do as good a job with this story/theory/believably.