This discussion of accessing the future probability database made me think about what I found about Jules Verne. Everybody knows that he wrote a number of books in which many of the details described (his visions about what the future holds) were to be found in the later years.
But one of books which is not known to the public is "Paris in the Twentieth Century".
The information is taken from wikipedia. I don't know how reliable is the information since I haven't read the book. But it may give you an idea about how you can access future probability database.
Paris in the Twentieth Century (French: Paris au XXe siècle) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The book presents Paris in 1960, about 100 years in Verne's future, where society has value only for business and technology.
In the book, Verne predicted many things he thought would occur in the 1960s. Some came true, but some were so prescient that by the 1960s, people had not yet reached the standard. Among them are:
* Mutually assured destruction.
* gasoline-powered automobiles
* high-speed trains
* The Internet (a worldwide "telegraphic" communications network)
* electric chairs (criminals "executed by electric charge")
Verne predicted a geometric, modern centerpiece built for the Louvre in Paris. A modern, geometric, glass-and-steel pyramid structure was erected in 1989 in the courtyard plaza of the Louvre. He also predicted the Eiffel Tower. The tower itself was built in 1887; the book was written in 1863.
More information -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_20th_Century
This idea about viewing possible technologies was tested also by remote viewer Joe McMoneagle.
Here is an excerpt from an interview http://www.firedocs.com/remoteviewing/joe/transcripts/mi960104jm.html
Joe McMoneagle - You can RV the past, present, or future. But there is a difficulty when you do the future as there are some things that can mess you up.
Chris (NOT mod.) - Can you elaborate?
Joe McMoneagle - Yes... Let's pretend that you live in the year 1810 and you're a remote viewer and your target is the general motors manufacturing plant in the year 1989... you will describe it perfectly but no one will understand what you are describing. i.e., the mechanical arms that do the welding as an example. So we target the year 2356 and it's very difficult to understand some of the concepts.
In his book The Ultimate Time Machine he expands upon his concepts about viewing the past, present and future. A good review which also includes some of his predictions of the future is here -> http://www.intuitive-connections.net/2006/book-timemachine.htm