Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Bakin.SSID@HI-MULTICS.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Bakin.SSID@HI-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: The Last Question Message-ID: <1851@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 20:14:53 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.1851 Posted: Tue Apr 30 20:14:53 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 04:38:58 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 From: Jerry Bakin > The recent query about stories with computers reminded me of one I > really enjoyed several years ago. I don't remember title or author, > but it seems that it was on the line of short-story, novelette, > length. > > The story was a series of vignettes taking part at various points in > man's history, starting with the computer era and ending (or > re-beginning) after the universe had run down from entropy. All that > was left at that time was a computer which had evolved to the point > that it existed as pure energy. This was "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov. The reason the computer existed (I think it was Multivac), was to answer a question: "Can entropy be reversed.""". The answer? Read the story! Jerry.