The Last Question

Asimov, Isaac. "The Last Question." Science Fiction Quarterly Nov. 1956. Coll. Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959, 1970. Rpt. The Science Fiction Roll of Honor. Frederik Pohl, ed. New York: Random, 1975.

Deals with the three-stage evolution of H. sapiens sapiens from (1) our current state, to (2) bodies with free-roaming minds, tended by machines and, finally, to (3) minds merged with the cosmic computer; parallel development of computers also handled. "The Last Question" is how to reverse entropy; the answer is, Creation by the ultimate computer-god.

RDE, Title, 11Aug19