The Deviant Defiance

ORACLE can predict dangerous behaviour. Then it begins shaping the future it claims merely to foresee.

Dr. Elias Vorn helped build ORACLE to predict unrest and prevent violence. When prediction becomes intervention, citizens are scored, redirected and silenced—and Elias himself is classified as a deviant. With an opposition movement that may also have been cultivated by the system, the struggle becomes a question of whether being right ever gave a machine the authority to rule.