This whole 'Foundation' series is amazing. I read every Issac Asimov book in the library that I could get my hands on in one summer when I was in middle school or high school.
The more rabbit holes I go down on 'Project Looking Glass' and running algorithms with supercomputers to predict all potential moves in a 'Game Theory' information war, the more my head is buzzing that these books were more than just fiction, and they might be an actual history or close to it of the either the human race or some other galactic race that actually exists or existed (whatever that may be).
fyi...The whole book series looks like it is on sale on Amazon right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QYV5GTz7c
Apple TV Trailer: 6,202,420 views Aug 19, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QYV5GTz7c
The fate of an entire galaxy rests on the beliefs of Dr. Hari Seldon (Jared Harris). Will his conviction save humanity or doom it? https://apple.co/_Foundation
Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
Foundation stars SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Jared Harris as Dr. Hari Seldon; Emmy Award nominee Lee Pace as Brother Day; Lou Llobell as Gaal Dornick; Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin; Laura Birn as Demerzel; Terrence Mann as Brother Dusk; Cassian Bilton as Brother Dawn; and Alfred Enoch as Raych.
Led by showrunner and executive producer David S. Goyer, Foundation is produced for Apple by Skydance Television with Robyn Asimov, Josh Friedman, Cameron Welsh, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross also serving as executive producers.
Approximate Timeline of all Foundation related Asimov Novels, 3 groups
Robot Series (Intended to start about current time):
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2000's CE - I, Robot
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4920 CE - Caves of Steel
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The Naked Sun (sequel 1 to CofS)
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The Robots of Dawn (sequel 2 to CofS)
Empire Series (starts about 10,000 years from now, covers ~1000 years?):
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12,000 CE - Currents of Space
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The Stars, Like Dust
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Pebble in the Sky
Foundation Series (adding ~11,000 years from Empire Series start)
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23,020 CE (12,020 GE) - Prelude to Foundation
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23,069 CE (12,069 GE) - Forward to Foundation (Year 1 FE)
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23,060's CE (12,060's GE) - Foundation
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23430 CE (12,430 GE) - Foundation and Empire (362 FE)
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23,444 CE (12,444 GE) - Second Foundation (376 FE)
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23,567 CE (12,567 GE) - Edge of Foundation (498 FE)
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23,568 CE (12,568 GE) - Foundation and Earth (499 FE)
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24,089 CE (13,089 GE) - 116th Edition of Ency. Galactica (1020 FE)
As a kid I had an old Apple IIe computer, and it had a game on it where you could talk essentially to a bot, it was called Isaac Asimov. It's the only reason I knew who he was.
Interesting. There was also a pretty cool game called "Space Station", pretty advanced for its time (possibly Commodore 64, a few years after the IIe) that allowed you to schedule launches of the Space Shuttle to assemble a Space Station and then select researchers to do certain projects to get "breakthroughs".
I think you can get both of these now for Apple IIe and Commodore 64 emulators that you can run on modern PCs that allow you to run and play these old games/applications.