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Comment Re:Foundation -- the parallels are uncanny (Score 1) 140

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...
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I spent a few years after college living in a rather isolated cabin at the foot of Crane Mountain in the Adirondacks of upstate New York -- a mile to the nearest neighbors by road, if you can call it a road (and if you could call them neighbors, since their place is a seasonal residence that they visit maybe two or three weeks out of the year.)

Anyway, after I'd been living there for a while, someone tried referring to me as "The Sage of Crane Mountain", as a joke.

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