Can future be predicted using a comp?

Question

Are there softwares or some super computers which can predict our future....?

Answer 1

No computers will ever be able to predict the future with any degree of accurracy, because humans make decisions based upon their surroundings and don't following any algorithms or logarithms like computer programs do.

Answer 2

A computer can process a large amount of data, allowing you to efficiently analyze that data. Depending on what the data is, it may allow you to predict future events such as the stock market or the weather with a certain degree of accuracy.
However, a computer is just a tool. Saying that a computer can predict the future is like saying a pen can write a book, or a pair of a razor can shave your beard. Sure they can, but ultimately it requires people to do the job. In the end, people are the ones who make the predictions, not computers.

Answer 3

It really depends on the question you are asking, how good your model is, and the quality of your initial data.

For example, computers can do a wonderful job of showing you the position of the stars and planets to a high degree of accuracy as they will appear in 10,000 years. The type of question is mathematical, the model (gravitional) is incredibly robust, and the initial data are very precise.

Weather, however, can be predicted poorly even though the question is really mathematical in nature since our models are iffy and the initial data (temps, pressures, windspeeds, etc) are limited in accuracy (you only get data where you have weather stations). Our predictions are therefore limited in accuracy and become useless if we predict more than a few days out (for meteorology, not climatology -- different problems).

Finally, there are many problems which are non-mathematical in nature (Will my great-granddaughter like fried bananas?) or for which we have no model that a computer can use for making predictions (What forms of government will exist in 300 years?) or no initial data (If all the civilizations in the universe send explorers travelling toward us at nearly the speed of light, how many will arrive by 2220?).

So, in some cases computers give very good predictions over long periods. In other cases they give useful predictions over limited periods. In still other cases they lack a useful model or data from which they could generate any predictions at all.

Answer 4

No. Heisenberg demonstrated in the Twentieth Century that this is impossible.

At the end of the Nineteenth Century, some felt that if only it were possible to amass sufficient knowledge and the brain power to organize it, you could in principle know the future with total certainty. Heisenberg proved them wrong. His Uncertainty Principle demonstrated mathematically that it is impossible to measure things beyond a certain limit of minuteness. There would always be a "graininess" to the universe that we cannot measure or predict.

No computer, no matter how powerful, can get below this irreducible minimum. So it is not possible with certainty to know the future.

Answer 5

No. In general, the influences are too complex to be mathematically modeled by any computer smaller than the universe itself. Specific phenomena can be modeled in ways to make useful predictions, however, such as the flow of air over an airplane wing.

Answer 6

Computers do this routinely for weather...of course they're never exactly right.

I submit to you that all computer predictions are only as accurate as the models (software code) that they run to arrive at those predictions. This applies across most everything, business/economics models, weather models, biological models, etc.

Answer 7

A computer can determine the PROBABILITY of something happening, which, i guess, is sort of like predicting the future. Like, it can determine, through computations, the likelihood of something happening based on past events. But that's about it.

Answer 8

Yes! There is a super computer that goes by the name of HAL. Seek it out for the ultimate knowledge.

Douchebag

Answer 9

programmable thermostat has computer to predict/ effect future of house temperature.

Answer 10

our biggest supercompters cannot even predict the weather accurately