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The longing for certainty and control over one’s fate and future has accompanied societies for millennia, and the twentieth century marked a new chapter in this longing through the advent of the roaming new technologies, materials, and deterministic beliefs in the total knowability of the world by the power of men’s mind. From ancient prediction rituals to contemporary foresight reports, the traditions of materializing the tomorrow in the form of a sketch’ is ubiquitous in cultures worldwide. Popperian logical positivism in science and humanities solidified quasi-religious beliefs in cultural …