{"id":697,"date":"2014-03-29T22:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T05:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/?p=697"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:33:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T05:33:31","slug":"psychohistory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/psychohistory\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychohistory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last week I&#8217;ve been talking about our failures to predict the future. In this post we&#8217;ll look at a few people who were very good at predicting the future.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov. The fictional study of psychohistory consists of using statistics and psychology to predict with extreme precision historical trends and events.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Robynn&#8217;s been reading Ray Bradbury&#8217;s Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury exercises  incredible foresight from the 50&#8217;s. He predicted a future where people always have an earpiece in so they&#8217;re connected to mindless entertainment. Everyone watches TV shows which are pure drivel and contrived nonsense. We don&#8217;t have earpieces but we do have smartphones. Has your dinner ever been interrupted by a quick check of Facebook or Reddit? Mindless TV? Ever seen the Big Bang Theory?<\/p>\n<p>How did Bradbury so clearly see our future? What allowed him to open his mind and follow the trends to see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last week I&#8217;ve been talking about our failures to predict the future. In this post we&#8217;ll look at a few people who were very good at predicting the future. I just finished reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov. The fictional study of psychohistory consists of using statistics and psychology to predict with extreme precision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"psp_head":"<title>Psychohistory \u2013 Today Was Awesome<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the last week I&#039;ve been talking about our failures to predict the future. In this post we&#039;ll look at a few people who were very good at predicting the future. I just finished reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/psychohistory\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}