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"did I had an extremely expensive wife - she would see a new car that she liked and just buy it... under California law I was bound to buy her debts. I think I turned out 16 novels in five years."
- Philip K. Dick

Histo-Research  
  Historical research using a time machine.  

If you can get actual observational data, it's the best possible way to do history, don't you think?

They faced each other across the desk. Wood folded his hands. "I'm going to put it straight on the line. You are considered an expert, the expert at Histo-Research. You know more about using a Time Dip than anyone alive; that's why you've been shown our work, our illegal work."

"And you've already got into trouble?"

"Plenty of trouble, and every attempt to meddle further makes it that much worse. Unless we do something, we'll be the most culpable organization in history."

"Please start at the beginning," Hasten said.

From The Meddler, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Future in 1954
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Compare to psychohistory from Isaac Asimov's 1951 novel Foundation.

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