Is There a Better Way to Predict the Future?

The average American listens to 17 hours of music a week. You tell the Pandora website a song you like, and it rummages through that massive genetic database to make an educated guess about what you want to hear next. Each song is broken down into as many as 480 musical attributes, almost like genetic code. So let me open up my radio station here, and I'll play and see what you got for me.