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Founders – In the Near Future the Entire Social, Political, and Economic Infrastructure of America Has Collapsed

Mac Slavo
September 27th, 2012
SHTFplan.com

 

Sometime in the near future the world as we know it will change drastically. The financial and economic systems we have come to depend on will finally buckle, and when they do, those things that we take for granted today – our ability to conveniently engage in commerce, to depend on police and medical responders to be there in an emergency, and even turning on our lights [...]

Now we understand Paul Krugman

Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan

Wired: You’ve said that you recently agreed to write a new introduction to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. What will you be talking about in your introduction?

Paul Krugman: The background story is, I read Foundation back when I was in high school, when I was a teenager, and thought about the psychohistorians, who save galactic civilization through their understanding of the laws of society, and said [...]