![]() Seldon’s great accomplishment was his reinvention of the discipline of psychohistory. Seldon’s mathematical models have shown conclusively that the Empire will collapse within a few hundred years, followed by a 30,000 year dark age before civilization is rebuilt. However, very few people have realized this, primarily those working with the great mathematician Hari Seldon. Set in a distant future, the book details a vast, galactic empire which has controlled thousands of inhabited worlds for 12,000 years. Psychohistory (originally hyphenated as “psycho-history”) first appeared in the short stories Asimov would later collect in his episodic novel Foundation. ![]() But he also came up with another unique and equally memorable science fiction concept: psychohistory. ![]() That’s what most people think of first when they think of Isaac Asimov-and certainly, his stories about the Three Laws of Robotics are among the best he wrote. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics the reaction of a billion is something else again.” It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. ![]() ![]() It was the science of mobs mobs in their billions. “Psychohistory dealt not with man, but with man-masses. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |