The book takes the determinist idea that if you knew enough science, you could effectively predict the future and then does precisely nothing interesting with it. The book is remarkably sexist - Asimov’s disdain for womankind is mostly shown by the depiction of a universe in which women are almost entirely absent. A woman speaks precisely once in the book and in response, she is told that she speaks too much and is threatened by her husband to have her tongue removed.

Also, it’s just pretty boring. I don’t know why it’s still in print.