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Jeff Spry

'Foundation' Season 3: What is the strange science of psychohistory in Apple TV+’s sci-fi saga?

A group of people in dark clothing stand in a dimly-lit room looking up at a holographic floating model of a galaxy.

Season 3 of Apple TV+'s ambitious adaptation of sci-fi master Isaac Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy" has passed the midway point of its 10-episode run and we've assessed the opinion that it's perhaps the finest season yet in terms of character development, story clarity, and startlingly beautiful visual effects.

One of the key concepts in the books and "Foundation" TV series is the fictional branch of science called psychohistory, which was dreamed up by the logically-minded Asimov as a mathematical means by which future events could be accurately predicted using a cocktail of historical equations, psychology, sociology, theology and the nature of human events played out.

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