You'd probably enjoy the tv thriller, Devs. Yeah, it is interesting as a pop-pseudo-philosophical discussion, but it isn't very realistic. Even what you say about weather prediction involves quite a lot of hyperbole. Weather prediction is still not very accurate.

The show really interested me because it's premise was that it would be even easier still to look back and replicate the past by using the data we have today. To extrapolate what we don't know by comparing what we do with the path things took from that point to now.