Cliology

Cliology is the mathematical study of history. It is the prediction of human social events in the large. It does not predict the detailed future of individuals. It predicts the trends of large groups of people. Isaac Asimov applied the term “psychohistory” to the same discipline in his series of novels beginning with ...
Cliology may be defined as the science that seeks to understand and predict the course of history—from Clio, the Greek muse of history. As far as I know, no such science is currently practised, but it was named and interestingly discussed in Michael Flynn's novel In the country of the blind (1990).
AI-based surveillance, which became the basis of an exact historical record-taking, and later of simulation of conditions for which there were not any direct records.
Cliology is the study of history taken to the next level. With the coming of advanced information technology it became possible for the first time to truly monitor an entire populace and to store all the data gathered permanently. Public reaction and, in most jurisdictions, resulting legislation, kept this from becoming a ubiquitous practice until the Technocalypse. [ Michael Beck, 2000 ]
See: Big Data