What would happen if we could see into the future?

Here's a link to an article by Andrew Abela who states, The one question that has probably bothered mankind the most is "What would happen if we could see into the future?".

Actually, I don't think that's the single-most bothersome question encountered, to date, by humankind.

If we're going to keep our selection of candidates confined to the time-travel-thingy, I think more people, scifi writers included, tend to speculate as to what would happen if a past event had occurred differently.

Or, more to the point, what would happen if we could produce this effect by altering the past. Routinely, of course, the mechanism involved for this line of thought concerns either a time travel device or the accidental or intentional opening of some sort of fissure or rift in the fabic of space-time.

(Now, if we don't confine our candidates to the time-travel-thingy, the hands down winner for the most bothersome question is probably, "what would happen if you could get your hands on a pair of xray glasses?")

Here's the link to the article below. I'll be honest, I didn't read the whole thing because it started to get pretty boring (sorry Andrew, if you happen to backtrack and read this. I'm not saying all your writing is boring. For all I know, most of your writing is wonderfully enthralling and this was just you on a bad day).

But, sometimes there's a silver lining in even the most boring of articles. And here it is: Many years back, I read Philip Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep, which formed the basis for BladeRunner. Well, I didn't know that Minority Report and A scanner darkly were also adaptations of his work.

Bladerunner, by the way, stands out as the one of the finest achievements of science fiction film-making of the last century (its pretty cool that we can say that now since we're actually in the 21st century, albeit minus a moonbase named alpha and a fleet of eagles that we were supposed to have by the mid-90's).

Here it is: The general story, lacking any evident motivation for the Russian nuclear weapon obsessed antagonists, was tiresome at best.