The Last Question — Isaac Asimov
2008/01/09/1738RTFA: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
The Last Question
by Isaac Asimov © 1956The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21,
2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question
came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened
this way:Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of
Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the
cold, clicking, flashing face — miles and miles of face — of that giant
computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays
and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single
human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.
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