Isaac Asimov - The Last Question

One of Asimov's best-known and most acclaimed short stories.

Published in 1956.

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[Thomas Giles]

Anyone know the source of this? Who narrated it? Who created the video in the first place?

[Colum Kelly]

It was aired on BBC Radio 7, read by Henry Goodman according to their website.

[Hamza ShahKhan]

the ending, MY GOD THE ENDING!!!



[Mark Charles]

This is comment 101: Asking all multi-vac's, and mini-vac's to back quantum computing in the search for the "hyper-space" computer that transcends entropy, and enables the Last Question to be answered. -Not to mention the possibility of faster than light communication.  Ohhh my head hurts from the repercussions of this possibility!

[shaithesm0ck]

this reading is very well done :D

[Seano299]

It's set in 2061, what the fuck do you think?

[ElectricChaplain]

@cires2991: Yes, Apple (now owned by Microsoft) is making the MultiVAC for the iPad.

[cires2991]

Is this based on a true story?

[CicerotheDefender]

Error: "write stories" not "write about".

[CicerotheDefender]

I understand that scientific empiricism and skepticism usually wipes away the abrahamic God, but for me science's infinite promise, technological determinism, and the concept of life as negatively entropic stand as bulwarks of my sense of spirituality and God. It is no coincidence that Asimov, Clarke, and other great science fiction writers write about stories like the Last Question involving human transcendence to Godhood and then call such stories their favorites.

[hsimah666]

lol you're right, I don't think there are any real world repercussions anywhere for making sarcastic jokes in a YouTube comment.

[4cellar2door0]

You say "its the internet" as if the internet is different from the other forms of communication.

I guess you are under the impression like so many others that the internet is a game, that nothing you say or do on it "counts" in "real life".

You are sorely mistaken lol.

[hsimah666]

It was a joke dude. I don't feel dumb and I did get to learn about something new. Chill out, it's the internet :)