I’m going to set aside my distaste for portmanteaux for a moment (they’re terrible, and lostalgia is a truly awful word!) and recommend you give at least the introduction to Another ___ is Possible a read (emphasis mine):

“…contemporary systems of forecasting—from data analytics to AI—often give us the form of futurity without its substance. In churning prediction without futures, they flood us with probabilities and dashboards while narrowing the range of what feels possible. Optimisation crowds out imagination. We are saturated by frameworks and models, yet starved of meaningful horizons.”

(I haven’t finished the whole thing yet, but the chapter on Generative Friction is also worth your time.)