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Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate
Is the future over? To some, it has been for some time. Ten years ago, the late critic Mark Fisher…
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How Do You Practice Responsible Astrology?
All the astrologers I spoke with emphasized confounding factors as one key reason astrological prediction is never, ever 100 percent…
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The Danger of Leaving Weather Prediction to AI
Humans have tried to anticipate the climate’s turns for millennia, using early lore—“red skies at night” is an optimistic sigil…
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The Creepy TikTok Algorithm Doesn’t Know You
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that “the algorithm” knows you better than you know yourself. A computer can supposedly predict…
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Crime Prediction Keeps Society Stuck in the Past
One of the most remarkable examples of the use of predictive technology is the story of Robert McDaniel, detailed by…
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The Shady Business of Selling Futures
Future predictions always proliferate at the end of the year, but in 2021 something different is joining the usual speculations…
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Predicting Death Could Change the Value of a Life
If you could predict your death, would you want to? For most of human history, the answer has been a…
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If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?
As you read these words, there are likely dozens of algorithms making predictions about you. It was probably an algorithm…
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The History of Predicting the Future
The future has a history. The good news is that it’s one from which we can learn; the bad news is…
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