Predictions are bound by time-related parameters. On the one hand, predictive models use data from the past to predict the future, allowing the past to legitimize present actions. On the other hand, repeated predictions about the future of technology influence which technologies are considered inevitable, thereby borrowing legitimacy from the future. Consequently, both the PAST and the FUTURE can act as justification for actions in the PRESENT, obscuring the present as a site where the distribution of power occurs.
Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow, photo: Lars Pinkwart