Do you believe that there are people who can predict the future?  

I rather see these "predictions" you have listed here as mostly scientific endeavors that some people were not optimistic about being successful. Technological minds inventing things that do work, I am sure after many failures. Most inventions that are successful are "the best thing that ever was" for somebody!!
In my opinion, predictions come from psychics or gifted people. And yes, I do believe there are people in this world that can predict the future. There are many people in this world that use psychic readers to see their future. Personally, I would not like to know about my future. Even though there may be some good things I hear about it, I would not wish to know the bad things. I would rather have the spontaneity of living my life one day at a time. Although, if I was told I would be in a horribe accident, I could change my pattern that day to possibly avoid having that accident. It is a conundrum for me, but I still think I would rather not know.
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Well. I believe in a thing known as "Intuition". I hate when Definitions are defined with the word that you're trying to define, because I was going to insert the definition but it defines it with itself so nevermind!

But, obviously I'd assume you know what Intuition is. I definitely believe that most everyone has intuition but some have better skills at it than others. I mean, it's like...knowing when to be tactful but honest. "Does this dress make me look fat?" "well, no but I think you might look much better in this dress, it accentuates your better features."

You know better than to not say "Totally! You look like a cow! I can see all the flabs in your body". This would be also known as "Common Sense" but not everyone has common sense.

In that same respect, I definitely think you can get a feeling that somethings off. you can't pinpoint it, but it just feels off. And then you get bad news. And voila! that's what that feeling was. I think it's intuition.

I don't necessarily believe or disbelieve in psychics, but I think it all spawns from intuition. From reading people, from reading the world around you, from getting a sense and a feeling. It's all different strengths and levels of natural intuition.

I don't think that people can predict the future. Nowadays, there are a lot of scams in the world with people stating that they can predict what is going to happen in the future but it is not true.

I absolutely believe that there are those who can predict the future, ctry, but that does not mean they will always be 100%. My mother first made me aware of Nostradamus during the 70s. I was fascinated since I have always been interested in things that are not the ordinary. This led me to study Bible prophecy and the predictions of some other famous psychics from earlier times. I have also studied some of the modern psychics such as Jeanne Dixon and Sylvia Browne. The subject is very interesting if you really get into it. I even listen to a nightly radio show because they often feature psychics. I also believe that it is within us all to be psychic to some degree if we just let it happen.

i think no one can predict the future coz future is secret of God. We may can predict tommorow just 30%, and the future 10%, may be our predict for the future is true but that is just some percent not 100%.
So, i don't think that people can predict the future. That's bullsyit

that i so amazing..i believe in that..many would say i have some premonitions of the future..there are dreams that happens twice a week and i can tell them what exactly would happen when i sensed that it seems it happened already..dejavu is what they call it..but some of my dreams had come true..

I believe that there are people who can predict... whether it be just a few days in advance or years in advance.

I worked at a Wawa once on the midnight shift. My first day, the girl who was training me stopped in midsentence and just stared for a few minutes. She looked genuinely frightened, so I asked her about it. She told e that she gets premonitions every now and then and that she'd just had a vision of herself being shot while someone was robbing the store.

About 3 months later, I got called in to work because someone called out, so we were working together. A guy came in and started wandering the store aimlessly. A few minutes later, another guy came in -- a guy that I'd worked with at a previous job. He recognized me and we talked for a few minutes, catching up and stuff. The other guy walked out of the store, and he gave me a hug and then left. When he hugged me, I could feel a gun in is inside jacket pocket.

After he left, my co-worker came over and asked me who the guy was, so I told her. Then she told me that HE was the guy she'd seen in her premonition. She was shaking and had to go in the back for a few cigarettes. She kept saying over and over that if the other co-worker hadn't gotten sick and if I hadn't been the one called in (since I knew the guy), she probably would have died.

There have been other incidents that make me believe in that stuff. But I also believe that the things seen are not set in stone.

I suppose what you are talking about are people who invented things and were not sure if the invention would bring success. But your question belies that. In fact, it supposes those who can bring predictions out of the air with no hints, sort of like the fortune teller with the crystal ball. I believe there are such people, but whether it is a gift from God or a curse from the devil to lure the foolish, I believe it is the latter. There are those who are able to discern the times or have a logical mind that knows that if some a such happens, this will be the outcome.
In view of this, I believe there are people who can predict the future, but would I trust them? It depends.