Ideologies / Technocrat / Hari Seldon
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Hari Seldon
Psychohistory
Society steered by predictive science.
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Asimov's mathematician whose 'psychohistory' predicts and steers the fate of civilisation — fiction's purest dream of rule by predictive science.
social
Rationalist faith that mathematics can shape history.
economic
A planned recovery engineered across centuries.
governance
Guides civilisation through an expert plan, above ordinary politics.
Notable for
- Invented psychohistory (in-story)
- Founded the Foundation
- Engineered the Seldon Plan
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