Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly radio show from WFMU about technology, how it's affecting us, and what we can do about it.

Carissa Véliz, author, "Prophecy"

Jul 20, 2026

In centuries past, predictions of the future came from oracles and seers. Today they come from tech oligarchs and their predictive AI systems, fed by mass surveillance. Carissa Véliz returns to Techtonic to discuss her book “Prophecy” about “prediction, power, and the fight for the future.”

Show Notes

• Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI, by Carissa Véliz

• carissaveliz.com, Carissa’s author site

• The prophet in your pocket (by Carissa in Aeon, May 8, 2026): “Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move.”

• AI is the new Oracle of Delphi. That’s bad news (The Economist, April 21, 2026) “Societies urgently need to confront the ethics of prediction, writes Carissa Véliz.”

• November 7, 2022 Techtonic: Carissa Véliz discussing “Privacy is Power”

• July 1, 2024 Techtonic: Carissa Véliz on digital ethics

• My reading odyssey – with Odysseus (by Mark Hurst, July 17, 2026)
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