This is good news! If such a TV serial presentation of Asimov's Foundation 'heptalogy' is successful, it will spread the meme of Asimov's science of "psychohistory" far and wide, including to a new generation. This will encourage many to seek a real world, planetary-scale actualization of that meme -- of a mathematical science capable of describing the present of human-social reality so aptly, that this description also morphs into a prediction of the human-social future. Such a science might not only foretell an emerging "new dark age", but also indicate how to engineer an averting of that "dark age" altogether, or at least a minimization of the intensity and duration of that "dark age". One org. has already taken steps in that direction -- Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.]. They have derived a system of seven 'psychohistorical-dialectical meta-equations' that reconstruct, symbolically, key aspects of the past-to-present of Terran human society, and that can be iterated forward to symbolically 'pre-construct' its future. For more about this development, see www.dialectics.org .