Asimov's Foundation trilogy β expanded to seven novels β imagined a Galactic Empire on the brink of collapse and a mathematician who develops "psychohistory," a science of predicting mass social behaviour, to shorten the inevitable dark age. Its ideas about the mathematics of history, the nature of civilisation, and the possibilities of institutional design have influenced economists, historians, and Silicon Valley founders alike.

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