It's technically not inevitable, sure. What has to happen for this not to become the future though, and what are the odds of that happening?
The rational choice is to act as if this was ensured to be the future. If it ends up not being the case, enough people will have made that mistake that your failure will be minuscule in the grand scheme of things, and if it's not and this is the future, you won't be left behind.
Sure beats sticking your feet in the sand and most likely fucking up or perhaps being right in the end, standing between the flames.
The rational choice is to act as if this was ensured to be the future. If it ends up not being the case, enough people will have made that mistake that your failure will be minuscule in the grand scheme of things, and if it's not and this is the future, you won't be left behind.
Sure beats sticking your feet in the sand and most likely fucking up or perhaps being right in the end, standing between the flames.