root@idmi-cc.UUCP (Admin) (05/01/85)
> The story was a series of vignettes taking part at various points in > man's history, starting with the computer era and ending (or > re-beginning) after the universe had run down from entropy. All that > was left at that time was a computer which had evolved to the point > that it existed as pure energy. > > This story is Assimov's "The Last Question". Coincidentally, several > recent messages to the digest discussed the names the computer had at > various stages of evolution during the story, from Multivac through > Cosmic AC and finally just plain AC. "And AC said. . ." An interesting note: "The Last Question" was also done as a planetarium show. I saw it about 12 years ago on Long Island (New York), it was fantastic. When it started out all the images were very brightly projected but as each segment finished the next one would proceed a little more dimly projected. In the last scene, with the images extreemly dim, "AC said. . ."; And let me tell you - there certainly was!!! Half the audience left rubbing their eyes :-). ----- "Adventure is when you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop." - Murray Leinster (First Contact) Andrew R. Scholnick Information Design and Management Inc., Alexandria, Va. ...seismo!rlgvax!idmi-cc!andrew