“Interstellar wars will be endless,” he warns. Its inventor, Hari Seldon, lives in a twelve-thousand-year-old galactic empire, which, his equations reveal, is about to collapse.
Isaac Asimov’s classic saga revolves around the dismal science of “psychohistory,” a hybrid of math and psychology that can predict the future. An innocent viewer of the new Apple TV+ series “Foundation”-a lavish production complete with clone emperors, a haunted starship, and a killer android who tears off her own face-might be surprised to learn that the novels it’s based on inspired Paul Krugman to become an economist.
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