People often think prediction is about the future.
Geology suggests something different.
Prediction often begins with the past.
Not because the future repeats perfectly.
Because influence persists.
A boundary survives.
A corridor survives.
A structural inheritance survives.
The event disappears.
The influence remains.
The future emerges from those surviving influences.
Perhaps prediction is not the art of seeing what comes next.
Perhaps prediction is the art of recognizing what never truly left.