Several of my previous entries have made mention to the Founders. This term, as used in the academic circles of Glaucus, refers to the original men and women who joined the Foundation before the War. The list includes notable greats such as the geneticists James Watson and Craig Venter, roboticists Victor Scheinman and Hans Moravec, neuroscientist and political theorist Nayef Al-Rodhan, and many others. In the disastrous political turmoil leading up to the war they all accepted the refuge the Foundation offered. As a result of their extensive recruitment, when the War came and society collapsed, the seeds of civilization, science and technology were preserved in the Foundation.
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NovSome historians may write of 2020s as a decade of death, destruction and war, and they’d be right. I, however, see this time as a period of necessary cleansing that prepared the way for the Rebirth. The culture, economy and technology of the time were slowly killing the planet. Reliance upon fossil fuels and nuclear power for energy was unsustainable, unhealthy and dangerous. The destruction of the times was a direct consequence of the way technology was used in pre-Rebirth culture. Their recognition of the sickness of the world’s culture is what led the Founders to organize Minerva.