[mcshicks]

They seemed to have missed peter turchin

"In 2010, Turchin published research using 40 combined social indicators to predict that there would be worldwide social unrest in the 2020s"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turchin

[paularmstrong]

The way Cliodynamics, Turchin’s field, is explained feels like a very early and remedial version of psychohistory from the Foundation universe.

[Sardtok]

Have a look in the Fiction section of the Cliodynamics article.

[mcmcmc]

When is there not social unrest?