This topic covers issues of prediction, risk management and forecasting and how these tactics influence the future.

There is a difference between predicting what is likely given where we are now and the current conditions, compared to creating possibility. All too often futurism conflates these two. We'll explore methodologies for collective visioning and the political technologies of future-making.

• The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life, Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel 

• Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back), Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams