Avon, Blake and others in “Unfinished Business”

Have you found what you want?

No.

That's because you're looking for the wrong things.

What exactly does that mean?

It's a common enough failing. Now, if you've finished with Zen, I'd quite like to get on; we have a malfunction on the intermediate range sensors. I need to check the systems.

Leave it! If I've missed something, I want to know what it is now, Avon.

Well now, all you had to do was ask. Zen! Replay, half speed.

Confirmed. (Replays prediction in slow motion)

Stop. All right, reverse to the instant before the explosion. (The explosion sequence is run backward) Freeze it there. All the reassurance you could want.

Do you think you could forget your superiority complex for a moment and get on with it?

All right. But first of all, let us examine the nature of prediction. The human mind is capable of seeing into the short-range future with reasonable accuracy. For example, imagine that you are standing on the edge of a cliff.

As long as you're not standing behind me.