From loans to jobs and what you watch on TV, almost every aspect of your life is controlled by prediction. But we need to be careful about who and what we believe, says Carissa Véliz, whose new book looks at how big tech’s forecasting has become all-powerful in the data-driven world they themselves have created Predictions are ubiquitous; they are water to a fish, swimming completely unaware of the troubling ripples all around. The art of prediction has been with us throughout history, even