tomw@102:

Right term, wrong author. Psychohistory was the product of one Hari Seldon, who in turn was a product of the imagination of one Isaac Asimov, as laid out in his foundation “trilogy”, later expanded to a quadrilogy.

Asimov was one of the fascinating (if egotistical) sci fi authors of history. But even he didn’t foresee the importance of computers in everyday life. I recently reread “Foundation and Empire”, and the manual calculations, use of paper for messages and so forth was very stark to my mind.

The man was still a genius, though. His 3 laws of robotics are a good template for AI developers to keep in mind.