What is the closest thing we have to psychohistory? Is it really

>>9156374
>What is the closest thing we have to psychohistory?
History
> Is it really possible to accurately predict mob behavior thousands of years in advance?
No? Why would you think otherwise?


also weird thing tangential to "psychohistory and mob behavior"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

>>9156374
okay so i am halfway through prelude to the foundation or whatever, do i really need to read all 5 of them or can i just read the core original 3?

>>9156374
>"Is it possible to predict..."
With the amount of data and computing technologies we have now, it might be. That being said, it would probably have significant error.

>>9156374
>What is the closest thing we have to psychohistory?

Guessing.

>>9156574
Read the three. If you feel like, "Damn, I wish there was more of this," then keep going.

>>9156574

The prelude book is garbage, just read the original trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation), they're really fast-paced and fairly short.

Keep reading the series OP. the short answer is: No.