The original Foundation Trilogy was one of my favorites. I haven’t reread it in many years though, as it seems dated now. The concept of Psychohistory, predicting the future mathematically well enough to anticipate and prepare for events over centuries of time, never seemed right to me - even today we cannot predict what our country will look like in a year or two, let alone centuries from now. Dr. Asimov, like many of his contemporaries, failed to account for the rapid rise of digital technology and the rapid collapse of social order due to leftist muslim homos like Obola.
>>The concept of Psychohistory, predicting the future mathematically well enough to anticipate and prepare for events over centuries of time, never seemed right to me <<
But Asimov dealt with that — the Prime Radiant was constantly adjusted and the whole thing was almost permanently destroyed due to the Mule.
Predicting the actions of large bodies of population is essentially an extension of what we now know as theories of Chaos.
Yes, The Good Doctor made it too dead-on and of course you have the whole “observer theory” thing, but overall a plausible and, more importantly, thought-provoking and entertaining premise.