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Mobsters (and other organized businessmen) prefer for their goals and means to be impregnable for outside spectators. Meaning we don't know what's happening. Also a much better job for their own ends, not yours.
Computation supply chains cracking are a problem, yes.
You know what else is a problem? Those who have a lot of reserve resources and reserve supply chains.
I would expect for USA to start playing Hitler in a decade or so, and it won't be the "inefficient Hitler" trope usually ascribed to USA. It'll be the "Hitler having listed all possible targets and eliminated them in under an hour when the global boogaloo starts" trope, the "Hitler having predicted all his possible opponents, as in separate people, down to every decision 10 years forward" kind of trope, the "evil Hari Seldon" kind of trope. The point is clear I hope.
All delivered to us by computation which most of the world uses inefficiently, but with proper understanding much more powerful. Anyway. I suppose it's too late to change anything.
EDIT: And also "when the global boogaloo starts" kinda omits the fact that it has probably already ended.
Hey, we’re yet to discover whether Hari Seldom would become a villain! With this end of the last season, you’d never know!
The books, however have been out for somewhere between 70 to 30 years
Isn't the show unrelated to the books beyond the setting and some characters?
You may actually be right, I haven't really watched the show as I don't have Apple TV. But it annoys me to no end they'd use the namez say it's based on the books, and do something different rather than an adaptation.
I hate that too.
I didn't know that the "The Man in the High Castle" (supposed to be based on a novel by Philip K. Dick) show was just about the setting and they came up with their own story. I was so pissed off after watching the first episode.
I was actually wondering why they even went with "The Man in the High Castle" since it's a strange and superficially depressing novel (even by the standards of PKD). There are much better choices for a series or a movie based on PKD's work.
That's why I didn't bother with the Foundation series (I am a big Asimov fan). I don't mind a re-interpretation of a literary work, but it has to be creative and mind bending while conceptually (and philosophically?) engaging with the themes from the literary work.
Hey, I was a fan of Asimov’s genius when I was a kid, but that was some time ago, and I remember only The Gods Themselves. As I read it many times, that’s my favourite. Are there any others you’d recommend? I mean, of course I plan to enjoy them all. But perhaps there are some recommendations for a stranger to read this, and then that, and then something else too.
Funnily enough "The Gods Themselves" themselves is my favorite Asimov novel. It's very memorable. Doesn't feel like an Asimov novel.
I would honestly go with "The Caves of Steel" as a "benchmark" Asimov experience, the first novel in the Robot series.
If you want to go for something a little bit outside of the Robot / Foundation series (and you've already read or reread "The Gods Themselves"), I would go for "The End of Eternity".
Thanks! Noted.
I thought about it, and I must admit I haven’t read it (yet). Yet, the TV series adaptation, it looks like the latest episode was like WTAF?! I mean, I won’t be surprised it would be a completely different adaptation.
I meant the books, which are not very detailed and focus on his genius at predicting whole societies, but not separate people, yadda-yadda, the author might have liked that specific detail, except it's wrong, a society consists of all its members, and predicting one person is still easier. I suspect that's because Foundation is actually a utopia, something showing how science and genius are always ultimately on the side of the good. IRL that's not true.
I didn't say a good job.