You ask about seeing ahead. What we call “seeing ahead” means looking into the rear-view mirror. And it’s just a joke: the ability to see ahead is zero in the human being. Because he is terrified of the present, let alone the future. And what is called “the future” is always a rear-view image, whether you start with Plato or move on to George Orwell. What you call the future is always the old culture just behind them. So the ability to look ahead in the modern child is not better than that of the great men of the past: it is an ability that does not exist!