Can predicting the future help us escape it? Didn't work out so well for Oedipus. Darien and Toby address the human desire to know the future and why that doesn't always work out well for us. Toby raises the possibility that our predictions are all in vain, and Darien predicts that he's wrong.
References:
- The Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles
- Antigone
- Oedipus the King
- Oedipus at Colonus
- (Wikipedia) Predictive Analytics
- (Contemporary Analysis. Predictive Analytics) History of Predictive Analytics: Since 1689
- (Freakonomics) How to be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future
- (Wharton) Philip Tetlock