It’s a short piece but packs a punch, with a comic ending that inspires rumination. There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer. In each phase, a human asks the Multivac if it’s possible to reverse the entropy of the universe-how to stop its seemingly inevitable death, save the universe, save humanity. It follows the evolution of his enduring conception, the computer Multivac, through six phases of space and time, and humanity’s relation to it. This is one of Asimov’s most famous short stories and his personal favorite. Is there a way to hold off or reverse the inevitable?Ī testament to this primary apprehension is “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov, a short story we discussed a few years back (after which the resultant sound files had their very own group entropic episode, only recently resurrected). Podcast (phi-fi-podcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:55 - 42.2MB)įrom Ponce de León to Woody Allen (and likely every self-reflective person who has lived), entropy has been at the root of human anxiety.
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