Predictive analysis does not just have benefit for you and other individuals. It also has merit for many of our important institutions around the world. Here are some predictive What-ifs for some of those institutions:

Predictive Medicine. What if remote personalised predictive warnings – especially with wearable tech – could be provided to anyone who was compromising the health of their own body (or brain)? Prevention would be better than the cure (and it often costs less).

Predictive Policing. What if the probabilities for most accidents and crimes could be predicted before the event occurred? More policing would then focus on prevention rather than intervention. Roll on Minority Report.

Predictive Politics. What if all politicians and policy writers could be privy to computer simulations that would accurately predict geo-political and climate change consequences that would result from their decisions?

Predictive Business. What if businesses could develop predictive algorithms that clarify clear patterns in their operation, and then maximise on profits that are gained by applying the patterns with updated data?

Predictive Education. What if educators could accurately predict the capabilities that will be needed by young people in the latter half of this century, and then focus today’s learning on the development of those capabilities?

Predictive Environments. What if the results from predictive analysis of the world’s faltering environment could guide how to apply the most viable interventions?

Predictive Religion. What if all religions engaged in predictive analysis to determine the ethical beliefs needed in a future world (eg with online civility), and then provided the social structures that would develop those beliefs?

Predictive Non-profits. What if non-profit charities could accurately predict the needs required by struggling citizens in the future, and then plan ahead to provide that support?