The phrase "may have predicted" is an acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to possible previous guesses or forecasts. For example: "It looks like the current market trend may have predicted by analysts weeks ago."
Others, as your correspondents have pointed out, may have predicted the technology of the internet.
Now, as their calculation may have predicted, what was once an unsavoury idea barely causes a ripple in the fabric of public opinion.
For Ms. Shoket, millennials are not only the focus of her book, but also the group that will spur the changes Ms. Sandberg advocates — but not in the ways Ms. Sandberg may have predicted.
The very fact that you can view "2001," along with almost every film ever shot, on a palm-size device is a future that Kubrick and Clarke may have predicted, but surely wouldn't have wanted for their own larger-than-life movie.
The oracle of Steve Jobs may have predicted the ultimate fate of Flash, but we still have to deal with it until JavaScript can match its performance.
Although the original Al-Khawarij movement in the seventh century AD actually did start in Iraq, yet this prophecy may have predicted a similar movement coming from Iraq.
Some weeks later, from New York, where he had gone with Scot (though, as May had predicted, the marriage didn't last much longer), Nichols called to ask May if she'd like to audition with him for the New York agent Jack Rollins.
Although he may not have predicted how tough the environment, his team did exactly that.
But it's possible that party leaders may not have predicted just how serious and involved the Kochs would become in their political activities.
DC began the afternoon facing a two-goal deficit after being dismantled in New York – a scenario they may scarcely have predicted when topping the Eastern Conference in the regular season, while New York were scraping into the playoffs.
Buruma may not have predicted this, but he certainly saw through the "Asian values" line put out by Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and others as a defense against Western human rights complaints.
