# Prognostics **Domain:** Forecasting / Cybernetic Governance **Doc Type:** Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[East German Cybernetics]], [[Georg Klaus]], [[Neues Ökonomisches System]], [[Behavioral Prediction]], [[Algorithmic Governance]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] ## Definition **Prognostics** is the organized study and institutional use of forecasting, especially efforts to anticipate social, scientific, economic or technological development in forms usable for planning. ## Kybernetiks Context In East German cybernetics, prognostics linked models of the future to administrative intervention in the present. It is an early interface between prediction and governance: predictive capacity does not by itself confer jurisdiction over the people or futures being modeled. ## Backlinks - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] - [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]