Editing Hari Seldon (section)

== Contemporary influence ==
Historian [[Ian Morris (historian)|Ian Morris]] has discussed the applicability and inspiration of Hari Seldon to statistics and prediction.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Morris|first1=Ian|title=Why the West rules-- for now : the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future|date=2010|isbn=9781551995816|page=581|publisher=McClelland & Stewart }}</ref>  Hari Seldon's name is cited in an article in ''The Economist'' discussing the use of statistics in [[epidemiology]], the process through which societies change collective political thinking, and "a general computer model of society."<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr. Seldon, I Presume?|url=https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i|newspaper=The Economist|date=Feb 23, 2013|access-date=August 29, 2017|archive-date=April 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424095350/http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i|url-status=live}}</ref>  
Seldon is also quite often named in research as a metaphorical literary reference point.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gaddis|first1=John Lewis|title=International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War|journal=International Security|date=Winter 1992–1993|volume=17|issue=3|pages=5–58|doi=10.2307/2539129|publisher=The MIT Press|jstor=2539129|s2cid=14897416}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Phillips|first1=Nelson|last2=Zyglidopoulos|first2=Stelios|title=Learning from Foundation: Asimov's Psychohistory and the Limits of Organization Theory|journal=Organization|date=November 1999|volume=6|issue=4|pages=591–608|doi=10.1177/135050849964002|s2cid=145493820}}</ref>

Phil Pinn speculated in ''[[Forbes]]'' that Seldon's psychohistory is being manifested in today's emergence of [[Big Data]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pinn|first1=Phil|title=Big Data: Is It Straight Out of Sci-Fi?|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gyro/2013/08/06/big-data-is-it-straight-out-of-sci-fi/#3ca7b0c45c4e|website=Gyro|publisher=Forbes|access-date=August 29, 2017|archive-date=August 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831073018/https://www.forbes.com/sites/gyro/2013/08/06/big-data-is-it-straight-out-of-sci-fi/#3ca7b0c45c4e|url-status=live}}</ref> Tom Boellstorff called Seldon has even been labeled a "paradigmatic figure" in Big Data research.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boellstorff |first1=Tom |title=Making Big Data, in Theory |journal=First Monday |date=21 September 2013 |volume=18 |issue=10 |doi=10.5210/fm.v18i10.4869 |language=en |doi-access=free }}</ref> 
In 2019, the term ''Seldonian algorithm'' was chosen to honor the character in new [[artificial intelligence]] techniques intended to avoid undesirable behaviors in decision-making systems.<ref>
{{cite journal
 | last1 = Thomas | first1 = Philip S. | last2 = Castro da Silva | first2 = Bruno
 | last3 = Bartol | first3 = Andrew G. | last4 = Giguere | first4 = Stephen
 | last5 = Brun | first5 = Yuriy | last6 = Brunskill | first6 = Emma
 | title = Preventing undesirable behavior of intelligent machines
 | journal = Science | volume = 366 | issue = 6468 | pages = 999–1004
 | publisher = AAAS | date = 22 Nov 2019
 | doi = 10.1126/science.aag3311 
| pmid = 31754000 | bibcode = 2019Sci...366..999T | s2cid = 208225074 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

People who credit to Hari Seldon for the career choices that they made include economist and ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' columnist [[Paul Krugman]]<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Larissa MacFarquhar|author-link=Larissa MacFarquhar|title=The Deflationist|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/03/01/the-deflationist|magazine=The New Yorker|date=March 1, 2010|access-date=April 3, 2016|archive-date=April 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401084312/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/03/01/the-deflationist|url-status=live}}</ref> and US politician [[Newt Gingrich]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Lizza|first1=Ryan|title=When Newt met Hari Seldon|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/when-newt-met-hari-seldon|magazine=The New Yorker|date=December 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221091132/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/12/when-newt-met-hari-seldon.html|archive-date=December 21, 2011|access-date=October 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> French politician [[Jean-Luc Mélenchon]] also cites Seldon as one of his [[metapolitics|metapolitical]] sources of inspiration.<ref name="francetvinfolhologramme">{{cite news |title=Video. L'hologramme de Mélenchon s'inspire de "Fondation", le classique SF d'Isaac Asimov |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/melenchon/video-l-hologramme-de-melenchon-sinspire-de-fondation-le-classique-sf-d-isaac-asimov_2666100.html |access-date=June 22, 2018 |work=France TV Info |date=March 22, 2018 |archive-date=May 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526202406/https://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/melenchon/video-l-hologramme-de-melenchon-sinspire-de-fondation-le-classique-sf-d-isaac-asimov_2666100.html |url-status=live }}</ref>