Predicting the Future

 Have you ever wondered what the future will be for you and your family? Does it promise riches or ruin, love or loneliness? Will you live a long life, or will your life be cut short? People have speculated about such questions for thousands of years. 

Today experts study global trends and make projections about the future. While many of their forecasts have come true, others have failed, some miserably. For example, in 1912, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of a wireless telegraph, was noted as predicting: "The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible." And an agent of the Decca Record Company, who rejected the Beatles in 1962m believed that guitar-playing groups were on the way out. 

Many turn to the supernatural for clues about the future. Some seek the advice of astrologers; horoscopes are a regular feature in many magazines and newspapers. Others consult fortune-tellers or psychics, who claim to "read" the future by interpreting patterns in tarots cards, numbers, or the lines of one's hand.

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