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They seemed to have missed peter turchin

"In 2010, Turchin published research using 40 combined social indicators to predict that there would be worldwide social unrest in the 2020s"

The way Cliodynamics, Turchin’s field, is explained feels like a very early and remedial version of psychohistory from the Foundation universe.

Have a look in the Fiction section of the Cliodynamics article.

When is there not social unrest?