Some people listen to psychic predictions of the future.  Others listen to futurists, but think psychics are phony.
The truth is, the track record is about the same for both.  So what is the difference? 
     Psychics predict the future based on psychic visions and dreams.  Unfortunately, those visions and dreams usually are not simple depictions of the future, but are often full of symbols. The psychic must be able to interpret the symbols correctly to get an accurate prediction.
    A futurist predicts the future by looking at how things have changed in the past few decades, what the current trends are, and uses that information, along with statistics and probability,  to predict how thing are likely to change in the next ten or twenty years.  The one problem with futurists is they do not predict natural catastrophes like floods and earthquakes which can drastically change the future.
    Another group are those I call Correlators.  They are not really psychics or futurists.  What they do is study predictions made by various psychics, prophets, and occasionally futurists.  They look for common threads and common predictions and then predict the same thing.  I have no objection to correlators, to some extent I do that on this blog.  I do object when they call themselves psychics.
    So which do I think is best? I tend to listen to reliable psychics and prophets, but I think it is also worthwhile to read what futurists have to say to get a complete picture of the probable future.  I don't think anyone can predict the future with 100 percent accuracy, they can only predict probable futures.  We also need to remember that sometimes the purpose of prophecy is to get us to change our ways so they will not come true.  We also need to use our own intuition to help tell which predictions "feel" right and which do not.