The Power of the Prophetic Role in Disruptive Trends

The ability to be innovators dilemma is unlocked by breadth to generalize fair better than specialists when it comes to sort of foreseeing these disruptive trends. In the ancient and medieval world there was sort of the executive the king so to say often had a wise person accompany him let's say a Merlin or a pope or in the case of biblical times of profit modeling that within this generalism framework do you think that that was a good combination?