If you could see the future, would you want to? I tend to believe it would ruin the present, even if there are some notable advantages to knowing what’s coming. Avoiding embarrassment and injury, for one. Making money off future Super Bowl winners, perhaps (NCAA reminder: Don’t Bet On It!).
But I feel like it would be considerably more fun to predict the future, using only the clues and hints available, rather than to know the future. The difference between magic and magic tricks, in a sense. It’s more impressive that way.