PREDICTIONS WITHOUT FUTURES*

Modernity held sacred the aspirational formula of open future: a promise human determination that doubles as an injunction to control. Today, banner this plannable future is borne by technology. Allegedly impersonal, neutral, and exempt from disillusionment with ideology, belief in technological change saturates present horizon historical futures. Yet I argue exactly how today's technofutures enact hegemony closure sameness. In particular, growing emphasis on prediction AI's skeleton key all social problems constitutes what religious studies calls cosmograms: universalizing models govern facts values relate each other, providing common normative point reference. predictive paradigm, are made conceivable only objects calculative control—control can never be fulfilled but persists eternally deferred recycled horizon. show technofuture maintained not so much producing literally accurate predictions events through ritualized demonstrations time.