It is a typical nature of man to try and find out what his future might hold which is why a lot of them have resorted to the predictions that can be made based on their zodiacs or even by numerology.
But there are some kinds of predictions about the future not just of one man but future in general that have been beneficial to the entire mankind in the time that followed after the predictions had been made.
One of them was when Mr. Edwin L. Drake predicted that oil could be found on drilling the surface of the ground but which was refuted by his associates who refused to think of a possibility that oil could actually be found through such a process.