The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. įor another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. Īnd it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. A timeless interval was spent in doing that. But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships. Īll collected data had come to a final end. Īll other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness. It is one of the most popular sci-fi stories and if you havent read it, then you should read it before moving on to this post. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half -drunken computer ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (1956) is a sci-fi short story consisting of several chapters which you can find easily by just one google search. Matter and energy had ended and with it space and time.
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