April 4, 2012
What’s the last one?
What’s the story behind this screenshot?
(Alternately, just let us know what’s blanked out)
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Answer:
Multivax
MultiVAX
“The Last Question”, a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov has a fictional computer called Multivac – that responds with an answer as above.
The Last Question by Issac Asimov.
I believe the original question posed to Multivac was, “How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased? “.
I think whats blanked out is ‘Back to MULTIVAX’, from the Asimov story…
Multivax
MultiVAX
This is from Issac Asimov’s ‘The Last Question’
Human beings ponder on how to prevent the heat death of universe and create multivac which answers “insufficient data”…. finally years after destruction of the universe, AC …formed by union of human and multivac finds the answer but has nobody to report it to; the universe is already dead. It therefore decides to show the answer by demonstrating the reversal of entropy, creating the universe anew. The story ends with AC’s pronouncement,
‘let there be light’
Answer given by Universal AC computer in Isaac Assimov’s novel The Last Question.
Multivax
MultiVAX
Multivax.
Isaac Asimov The Last Question
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The MultiVax search engine returns this result when the above question is typed.
This is in reference to the MultiVAC Isaac Asimov envisioned in his 1956 short story The Last Question.
MultiVAX
‘The Last question’. A Short story by Isaac Asimov.
And the thing blocked out is MultiVax
Asimov’s The Last Question.
MultiVAX
Multivax
Multivax