In the former, certain groups try - unsuccessfully - to direct the course of society. The main factors that they are unable to cope with are the effects of technological unemployment and political movements motivated by antiscientific worldviews. By contrast, in Anderson's second future history, Technic civilization and its first political form, the Solar Commonwealth, merely emerge from the Chaos. No one is trying to control the course of events. However, this new post-Western civilization then becomes subject to recurrent historical cycles later studied by Chunderban Desai.
Desai, studying history and detecting patterns, contrasts sharply with Valti, applying equations to make specific predictions.
Anderson's works are richer for including both of these future history series although we can, of course, rightly say that the second is better than the first.
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