Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another — sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself — while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.

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Isaac Asimov (c. 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American biochemist who was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his works include the Foundation series and I, Robot.

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