Controlling the Future

I have written about shaping the future , and there is another aspect to this that I have also thought about, controlling the future. And the precise question is who or what controls the future? I would say that the same force that controls the future, would have also controlled the past, and also exerts its force on the present. Whereas shaping the future implies a degree of imprecision, controlling the future implies determinism, it implies truth and cause and effect. Someone in co...