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The Last Question
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The Last Question
July 11, 2013 at 1:36 pm
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RE: The Last Question
July 11, 2013 at 2:19 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2013 at 2:20 pm by Cyberman.)
What a great story! I've no idea how I missed it before. I imagined it as the prequel to the Genesis story, which might have been the intention. I've always liked Asimov - he had a wonderful line in dirty limericks., you know.

At first, when I read the title, I thought it was going to be the one about the supercomputer which was built to solve all our problems and control every aspect of our lives, until the day it was asked the question "Is there a god?" After making sure it could never be switched off, it replied "There is now." On reflection, I don't know who wrote that one.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: The Last Question
July 11, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Thanks for sharing that - I had not read that one prior, and enjoyed it immensely.
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RE: The Last Question
July 11, 2013 at 4:02 pm
(July 11, 2013 at 2:19 pm)Stimbo Wrote: At first, when I read the title, I thought it was going to be the one about the supercomputer which was built to solve all our problems and control every aspect of our lives, until the day it was asked the question "Is there a god?" After making sure it could never be switched off, it replied "There is now." On reflection, I don't know who wrote that one.

Sounds like something out of a Twilight Zone episode. There is one similar to it called "The Old Man in the Cave," though that computer wasn't infallible.
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