Some ways to anticipate the future:

• Identifying the salient facts and dynamics of the present and modeling their development.
• Diagnosing the present in terms of a stage of development in a predictable cycle.
• Intuiting how things are going and where they are heading.
• Being the first to experience and articulate something that others will soon experience.
• Being the first to acknowledge and articulate something everyone is experiencing but cannot or will not speak about.

Calculations, heruristics, hunches, sensitivity and courageous self-reflection all give us different kinds of access to the future.