Something I just want to add as I did so many months ago when nightshift was discussing something similar. Looking Glass does not necessarily need to refer to a portal device but can very easily refer to a high powered analytic learning machine. Myself, for example, have always been able to accurately predict future events not because of any psychic power but because of my high level of low latent inhibition when considering real time events, previous events and assumed outcomes.
I am just a person and my reach is limited due to that. However, a machine, with all the data flowing through it constantly to update the potential for events? There is a (very) high propensity that is legitimate and from that one can obtain potential futures at a very high level of accuracy.