Foundation Trilogy · What Did They Read?

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The One Word That Explains Progress

The Next Big Idea, 1 October 2026. The book comes up at 11 min 34 sec in.

Martin Seligman cites the Foundation Trilogy as the founding prior example of psychohistory—the new field he aims to establish with Agency—crediting Isaac Asimov as its leading practitioner and framing his own work as a rigorous scientific successor to what Asimov explored in fiction.

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