[TrevorJ]

All the talk of timeframes reminds me of Asimov's foundation trilogy. (The coming dark ages, and the attempts to shorten it, the use of math to describe the actions of large groups of people which is basically what economics is.) Anybody else read this?

[magoghm]

My son is reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy, so I decided to reread it (I read it 30 years ago), and I keep noticing similarities to the current economic crisis and all the predictions people try to make.

[habibur]

Yeah! I read it. It was one of my favourate series of all time. Things are exactly as how you have described. I hated the robot series. But Foundation trilogy was a classic!

[TrevorJ]

I'm so happy other people have read it. It's bummed me out that the series isn't as well known as his other works.