The Last Question
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#2If you haven’t read it before, don’t read the Wikipedia summary; read the actual story. It’s easy to google and pretty short.
Isaac Asimov said it was his favorite story he’d written. He imagines the entire history of the future of humanity, to the end of time, in a few pages. Really a marvelous story.
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#3Deus ex machina is usually a literary hack but Asimov gets away with it by taking it seriously.
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#4If you haven’t read it before, don’t read the Wikipedia summary; read the actual story. It’s easy to google and pretty short. Isaac Asimov said it was his favorite story he’d written. He imagines the entire history of the future of humanity, to the end of time, in a few pages. Really a marvelous story.
Damn it, I wish I read this comment before I read the summary. I had chills at the end. Maybe I should read some Asimov...
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#5If you haven’t read it before, don’t read the Wikipedia summary; read the actual story. It’s easy to google and pretty short. Isaac Asimov said it was his favorite story he’d written. He imagines the entire history of the future of humanity, to the end of time, in a few pages. Really a marvelous story.
>If you haven’t read it before, don’t read the Wikipedia summary; read the actual story.
Read it from the original publication:
https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_New_Se...>
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#6I saw it at the Fels Planetarium of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia apparently in 1973 when I was 8 years old and always remembered it and even kept thinking about it every once in a while.
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#7If you haven’t read it before, don’t read the Wikipedia summary; read the actual story. It’s easy to google and pretty short. Isaac Asimov said it was his favorite story he’d written. He imagines the entire history of the future of humanity, to the end of time, in a few pages. Really a marvelous story.
It’s an atheist’s most religious dream to think of becoming one’s own creator. It’s nonsense, of course, but it definitely blew my mind reading it as a child. What set the parameters that the ultimate computer must work within? The ultimate computer can reverse entropy, but it can’t make its own reality. There are limits to the power of knowledge.
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#8I always thought this was kind of a response to Fredric Brown's "Answer."
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#9Deus ex machina is usually a literary hack but Asimov gets away with it by taking it seriously.
It's a literary hack now, but it wasn't when he wrote this