[4] For example, Finland has a Finnish parliamentary Committee for the Future, which takes advantage of foresight to predict and evaluate the impact of developments to the country.
Since 2001, the Millennium Project has initiated a project entitled the State of the Future Index, has been using a predictive methodology to foresee the future for global countries based on historical data, variables and indicators, such as GDP, annual population, literacy rates, population, and unemployment.
[8] Anticipatory governance utilizes various techniques to assess society which can evaluate the continuous information from knowledge based technologies, such as machine learning.
"[10] Anticipatory governance allows the state to use collected public information in order to determine predictive practices and draw conclusions based on this data.
Governments utilize predictive analytics to examine what kinds of behaviour and events that may occur as a result of this collected of data.
[11] For instance, Hewlett Packard can determine which employees will leave the company and they are able to identify ways of preventing this turnover.
[11] The practice of anticipatory governance presents its own ethical issues concerning the effects its methods have on the individuals that are influenced by it, such as discrimination and self-fulfilling prophecies.
[18] Due to the fact that anticipatory governance can be considered hypothetical the certainty of the future is not definite, thus, there is a measure of doubt associated with the practice.
[18] For example, predictive policing can target specific individuals within a society because the information provided by such analytics and technology, supports recidivism.