Ask the only questions that'll be left to ask

The internet has already become a vast mausoleum of everything that has ever happened: every sneeze of a celeb, every parliamentary walkout, every cat video uploaded.... With the current pace of AI and data harvesting likely to quicken even more, soon, every query about the past - even the immediate past we quaintly call the present - will be answered. Which leaves us with only one frontier worth salivating over, and inevitably cursing about before it comes to pass: a search engine that answers questions about the future. Enter Seldon Search, named after Hari Seldon, Isaac Asimov's great psychohistorian who theorised that with enough inputs and parameters fed into the equation, the trajectory of human society can be computed. Except, we'll go one step further and will be able to predict everything. You'll get (correct) answers for 'When will my boss resign?' 'When will India qualify for the football World Cup finals?' (actually, don't ask that), 'What's the right time to sell my SpaceX shares?' 'When will achhe din end?'

Seldon Search will make frustration futuristic. Instead of yelling at Google or Claude for finding you a restaurant that's shut down, you'll yell at Seldon for predicting your divorce date with unnerving accuracy. And, yet, you'll keep asking. Because once the past is fully indexed, the only thing left to search is tomorrow.