Quote Originally Posted by MLai View Post
Why shouldn't they be able to match human anticipation?
They can and they do.

Is every Human capable of the same anticipation as every other or do some have a better instinct for it than others?
Its the same deal with Minds (and Drones). There is never an exact population given, but Minds are thought to number in the hundreds of thousands, whereas pan-Humans number in the trillions.
Even then the number of Pan-Humans capable of the intuitive anticipation to be useful to the Minds numbers in the dozens.

What people seem to forget is that Minds are not infallible and they like to do things by committee, what with that being the Cultures thing and all.