Re:Foundation -- the parallels are uncanny (Score 1)

For me the key phrase was the insistence that Wikipedia was from the beginning "... singlemindedly aimed at creating an encyclopedia". That was _exactly_ what Hari Seldon's poor dupes insisted to all visitors in the first decades. But after Asimov's Foundation had existed for fifty years, its founder finally showed up in a holorecording to explain: "...the Encyclopedia Project is a sham, and has always been!" If the parallels hold up, the fall of civilization is coming maybe around 2025, give or take a decade, though most people won't recognize it for a while -- but Jimmy Wales' true aims won't be revealed until 2050. And yes, due to the Wikipedia's efforts, the Interregnum will be only a thousand years instead of 30,000. Given that we're hitting Hubbert's Peak now (again, give or take a decade), psychohistory might be preceding itself pretty nicely here...