Apple+: Foundation

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The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov was First published as a series of short stories in 1942–50. In the end the series became seven novels and connected to nine others, and more than thirty short-stories.

The premise of the stories is

that, in the end days of a Galactic Empire that spans the Milky-Way, mathematician Hari Seldon develops a theory of psychohistory, a new and effective mathematical sociology. Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire, and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second empire arises. Although the inertia of the Empire's fall is too great to stop, Seldon devises a plan by which "the onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little" to eventually limit these dark days to just one thousand years. To implement his plan, Seldon creates the Foundations—two groups of scientists and engineers settled at opposite ends of the galaxy—to preserve the spirit of science and civilization, and thus become the cornerstones of the new galactic empire.

Foundation premieres September 24, 2021, only on Apple TV+