TIL Asimov's concept of "psychohistory" (predicting the course of history using statistical mathematics) is now a real field of study called "cliodynamics".

http://www.wired.com/2013/04/cliodynamics-peter-turchin/all/



Submitted February 28, 2015 at 10:19AM by BeefPieSoup http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2xfmm8/til_asimovs_concept_of_psychohistory_predicting/