Asimov's favorite story: "The Last Question"
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In 1956, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in a single sitting that begins in 2061, with two drunk engineers asking a room-sized computer whether the universe has to end. The computer can't answer. Neither can the next one, a few centuries later, or the one after that, or the planet-sized intelligence humans consult once they've spread across the galaxy. — Read the rest
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