alt Hacker NewsI think prediction is about something you don't know. What happens in the future is that you might come to know.
For example, we predict that there is gold in X location.
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jibalt • today at 5:14 PM
We speculate that there is gold in X location. We predict that gold will be found in X location.
gwbas1c • today at 1:27 PM
When I read the first part of Origin of Species, Darwin made predictions where, I thought, "oh, that's just genetics and DNA." (Of course, he didn't know at the time.)
In addition to your example, there has been a pretty continuous supply of "predictions" that Einstein made that later proved correct when experiments were run.