3mo ago

Foundation - Book - Isaac Asimov - 1951

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I finally got around to reading foundation, I picked it up this afternoon, it was quite a breezy read, finished the entire book in a few hours.

Very much worth the read! I'm a little disappointed the version I have has advertisements for Apple TV yet still has typos and printing errors 75 years after the first printing.....

fresh thoughts

The psychohistorian aspect is interesting, i think it could have been explored a bit more, the first book discusses it a bit (predicting moments in history though large crowd predictions vs great man theory). After the first book its taken as mythic gospel (by design)....

The pattern for each age appears to be those resisting change are blind to their folly and those embracing a new dynamic win, it would be fun to have a chapter on a moment when staying the course was the right method (i.e. all the time between the 75 year incidents).