"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov

[mahipal]

http://multivax.com/last_question.html

[ghshephard]

Curious - I wonder what the legality is of distributing Isaac Asimov's copyrighted materials.

There is some subtle meta-insight of the internet being some form of MultiVax, but encumbered by extensive copyright laws, which limit its usefulness, but at the same time containing the story of Multivax regardless.

Further Meta-Meta-Insight:

http://www.google.com/search?q=copyright+status+%22The+Last+...

The first hit seems to have the most insightful analysis:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/happy_birthday_isaa...

[crazydiamond]

For those of you who missed yesterday's thread: The Last Answer

http://www.scritube.com/limba/engleza/books/THE-LAST-ANSWER-...

[billswift]

This was on HN less than a year ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595419

[blhack → billswift]

At this time, there are 47 people who still found it pretty interesting. In my opinion, that merits it appearing on the front page again.

(This is also the entire philosophy behind social news)

[billswift → blhack]

Sure, but I like reading comments, linking to earlier posts makes those comments available to new readers, too.

[wallfly]

Let's toss a little theology into the mix: http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Creation

[dreyfiz]

Great ending!