![]() ![]() And the final answer can be taken in many directions, and although biblical, even to me, a heated atheist, provides a secular meaning. The story was famously selected by the author as his own favorite an opinion shared by many of his fans as well. Asimov takes a vertiginous leap at answering this final question and finds a solution fitting to the magnitude of problem. It is a bold question (Mary Shelley’s words), one upon which, without a doubt, history’s most brilliant minds of astrophysics pondered endlessly. Throughout the story, the last question “can entropy be reversed?” (or more simply put “will the universe ever come to an end?”) is asked by humans to their computers throughout infinity, until only the machine and the question remain. In this short story, Asimov presented the problematic of asking systems of information about the limits of the universe itself. ![]() The last question was asked, half in jest, by Isaac Asimov sometime in the year 1956. ![]()
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