Manga adaption https://mangadex.org/chapter/39016/1
Ooh, I didn't know that yet. Thank you very much for the link!
I really like how it's built around the scrolling one has to do in order to read it.
The Last Question (1956)
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Re: The Last Question (1956)
#12This is one of those stories I randomly think about a few times a year.
Re: The Last Question (1956)
#13Audio version I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojEq-tTjcc0
(with British accents for Jerrodd, Jerrodine & the Jerrodettes)
Audio version II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOtx4sa9k4
(read by Leonard Nimoy for added gravitas)
Re: The Last Question (1956)
#14A song on the subject:
1. Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJNta-okRw
2. French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DynLBcmOTGs
Nerdiness warning.
Re: The Last Question (1956)
#15Long my favorite short story of all time. Greg Egan has some great short stories too.
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#16Oh man, Asimov was so bad with futuristic ideas. If you'd like to read good thoughts about future, go for Stanislaw Lem (Summa Technologiae, Golem XIV)
Re: The Last Question (1956)
#17Oh man, Asimov was so bad with futuristic ideas. If you'd like to read good thoughts about future, go for Stanislaw Lem (Summa Technologiae, Golem XIV)
What was bad about them?
Re: The Last Question (1956)
#18The story was written after the invention of the transistor, but it seems Asimov hadn't heard of them or didn't grasp the implications, and assumed that computers would be based on tubes (or valves, the word used in the story) for billions of years into the future (but eventually they would be "molecular valves" and a powerful computer could be only half the size of a spaceship).
Well, aren't transistors vavles for electric flow, that is valves for electrons
Re: The Last Question (1956)
#19My favorite short story, I re-read probably once a year when I stumble across a random reference to it.
“For a Breath I Tarry” is also wonderful. http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt
Incredible; thanks for sharing. I found a version that's easier to read: http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~alexp/books/forbreat.html
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
“For a Breath I Tarry” is also wonderful. http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt
That was a wonderful story but has a somehow unsatisfactory conclusion to the question. Spoilers below SPOILER The story appears to assert that to be human you need to have the imperfect faculties of a human body, but I would say that Frost started becoming human upon his creation which gave him curiosity
I don't think that's the human criterion. The criterion mordel asserts is, more or less, qualia.