Clarke may have dreamt up the artificial satellite...

[Ross Van Loan]

; Heinlein gave us Future History, but Isaac Asimov invented Big Data!  The  Psychohistory of the Foundation series utilizes, "the assumption that the human conglomerate being dealt with is sufficiently large for valid statistical treatment." (Foundation. P-19) That's right, kids! Asimov makes statistics a  cool all galaxy spanning superpower! How's that for Geek chic? We don't need Jedi : we have Statisticians to save galactic civilization! 

[HRogge]

At least they may save us on average...

[M Fnord]

That means Asimov was responsible for Project Insight...
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[HRogge]

That means Asimov was responsible for Project Insight...

On the other side, Marvel has LOTS of tiny groups of heros/villains that make a lot of changes... Marvel Earth would be the hell of Psychohistorians...

[Ross Van Loan]

In Marvel, Hari Seldon would have Cosmic Awareness,  and mind control : Hail Foundation ! Also, instead of dying, he'd just plop his brain into a Kirby Bot and oversee his hobby horse 'till the End of Time (tm)!