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From: wilde@apollo.uucp (Scott Wilde)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Ref. Computers in SF
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 12:49:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 12:49:54 1985
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>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.

I think the story was by Isaac Asimov ( in one of his n thousand collections of
short stories).  It was called "The Question" and I believe that the computer
kept trying to answer the question " How can entropy be reversed ?" 

                                                 Scott