![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It takes hundreds of billions of years, but eventually the computer produces an answer. People colonize other planets, surmount death, and eventually free their consciousnesses from their physical bodies, but all the while they ask Multivac’s increasingly powerful descendents if they can reverse entropy as existence comes closer and closer to ending. This beings a cycle that continues as both humankind and Multivac advance over the years. They then ask Multivac if there is any way to decrease the amount of entropy in the universe, but Multivac replies it doesn’t have enough data to give an answer. Two engineers get drunk and begin to discuss how this seemingly limitless source of energy is actually finite, gone once the sun collapses in billions of years, and how nothing can last forever due to the universe’s increasing entropy. The Last Question starts in the year 2061, when a massive computer called Multivac solves the world’s energy problems with a single solar power station. Combining transhumanism, philosophy, and theology, it’s a story that examines technological power and the collective anxiety of the human race. One of Asimov’s most well-known stories, as well as his personal favorite, is The Last Question. His style, which he called social science fiction, used hypothetical technology to make social commentary. Isaac Asimov is one of the sci-fi authors who popularized science fiction that had a level of introspection about humanity. ![]()
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