Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site asgb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!asgb!gupta From: gupta@asgb.UUCP (Yogesh K Gupta) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ref. Computers in SF Message-ID: <675@asgb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-May-85 15:38:54 EDT Article-I.D.: asgb.675 Posted: Wed May 8 15:38:54 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 10-May-85 21:36:59 EDT References: <1808@topaz.ARPA> Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, Boulder Colo. Lines: 27 > From: Richard.G.Turner, PERI-ET, USARI > > 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. > > Anyone else remember this one? > > rick Yes, this is the short story "The Last Question" by Asimov where the computer finally solves the problem of reversing entropy but there is no one to receive the answer. So it decides to demonstrate the solution and starts of by saying, "Let there be light ...". Yogesh -- Yogesh Gupta Advanced Systems Group, {sdcrdcf, sdcsvax}!bmcg!asgb!gupta Burroughs Corp., Boulder, CO. -------------------------------------------------------------------- All opinions contained in this message are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or the plant on my desk.