Book Review - Forward the Foundation

Forward the Foundation

Forward the foundation is an interesting look at a future where "psychohistorians" are able to make vague predictions about the future through mathematical equations. Furthermore there are a group of people who were able to "push" ideas to other people - the Foundation is an organisation founded in the end to organise all these people into "pushing" all the people of the federation into the behaviour required by psychohistory.

Psychohistory seems to be a science which parallels economics, with a mirror of the current hysteria surrounding economics - at some times hysterically positive and at other times hysterically negative.

I felt the book ended somewhat weakly with the psychics ensuring the populace followed the tenets of psychohistory. A few other elements were a somewhat unbelievable - such as how the administration of millions of planets with billions of people on each was managed.

So a book with some interesting ideas and engaging enough to see it to the end.

Title: Foward the Foundation
Author: Isaac Asimov
ISBN: 9780385269421
Rating: 3/5