Tuesday, 22 August 2023

Historical Theories, Past And Future

Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire
Hari Seldon's psychohistory

James Blish, Cities in Flight
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of The West
cultural morphology

Poul Anderson, The Psychotechnic History
games theory etc
Eino Valti's psychodynamics

Poul Anderson, The Technic History
John K. Hord, unpublished works
Chunderban Desai's historical analysis

Seldon and Valti mathematicise social prediction whereas Spengler and Hord/Desai historicize it. Desai presents detailed historical analysis.

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