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About Dan Herbatschek
Dan Herbatschek is a writer, strategist, and technologist whose work sits at the intersection of language, computation, and cultural history. The Predictive Present is his first book. It traces the long, braided history of language, time, and information — arguing that the predictive world we now inhabit is the product of their convergence across centuries.
He lives and works in the New York metropolitan area. He is available for interviews, panels, and speaking engagements on the themes of the book.
Topics
Available for discussion
- The intellectual history of AI — what came before the algorithm
- Language as technology: grammar, tense, and temporal coordination
- The politics of quantification and standardization
- How prediction became infrastructure: from actuarial tables to recommendation engines
- The cultural construction of time: clocks, calendars, and feeds
- Information, meaning, and accountability in the age of data
- What “the predictive present” means for education, governance, and public life
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Selected excerpts from The Predictive Present are available for publication in advance of the book’s release. All excerpt requests are subject to editorial review and publisher approval.
To request an excerpt or discuss reprint rights, please contact: hello@predictivepresent.com