From a brief article on Asimov's meshing of psychology and math in Foundation for those who have an interest.It's becoming clear that Asimov's psychohistory reflects an undoubtable truth that all the world's different social networks interact in multiple ways to generate a single future. From people to corporations, cities to governments, all the pieces of society must mesh. What appears to be the madness of crowds must ultimately have a method, a method that science can discover.
Asimov's 'Foundation' theories on society move from fiction to academia - Jewish World Review, July 16, 2004.
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