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* BeepingComputers: (SubvertedTrope) When Multivac is seen at the start of the story, it is softly clicking (and some lights were flashing) because it was sorting routine data. When Adell and Lupov asked it the titular question, "The slow flashing of lights ceased, the distant sounds of clicking relays ended." Later iterations of Multivac are so complex they don't make any noise except for speaking naturally with the human users.
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* BeepingComputers: (SubvertedTrope) When Multivac is seen at the start of the story, it is softly clicking (and some lights were are flashing) because it was is sorting routine data. When Adell and Lupov asked ask it the titular question, "The slow flashing of lights ceased, the distant sounds of clicking relays ended." Later However, later iterations of Multivac are so complex they don't make any noise sound except for speaking naturally with the human users.
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* NotQuiteForever: The [[TheStarsAreGoingOut whole plot]] of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''The Last Question'' [[DistantPrologue starts with this trope]]:
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* NotQuiteForever: The [[TheStarsAreGoingOut whole plot]] of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''The Last Question'' [[DistantPrologue starts with this trope]]:
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* StandardSciFiHistory: The story starts with Earth celebrating the total conversion to solar power (a method devised by [[MasterComputer Multivac]] which is far more efficient than current solar cell technology). The next scene has jumped to interstellar exploration with the Jerrod family moving to X - 23. Next comes a pair of character writing a report for the Galactic Council on the projected rate of expansion within UsefulNotes/TheMilkyWayGalaxy. This council never really seems to fall apart, merely dissolve into uselessness as mankind acts more like EnergyBeings. By the time the universe is ending, there are [[AbsurdlyHugePopulation over a trillion, multiplied by a trillion, multiplied by a trillion people]] in it. [[AbsentAliens Aliens are never seen]] and this story goes much further along the path of history than comparable stories.
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* StandardSciFiHistory: The story starts with Earth celebrating the total conversion to solar power (a method devised by [[MasterComputer Multivac]] which is far more efficient than current solar cell technology). The next scene has jumped to interstellar exploration with the Jerrod family moving to X - 23. Next comes a pair of character characters writing a report for the Galactic Council on the projected rate of expansion within UsefulNotes/TheMilkyWayGalaxy. This council never really seems to fall apart, merely dissolve into uselessness as mankind acts more like EnergyBeings. By the time the universe is ending, there are [[AbsurdlyHugePopulation over a trillion, multiplied by a trillion, multiplied by a trillion people]] in it. [[AbsentAliens Aliens are never seen]] and this story goes much further along the path of history than comparable stories.
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You can read it [[https://archive.ph/cpzU1 here]], or listen to Asimov read it to you [[https://archive.org/details/the-last-question-by-isaac-asimov here]].
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AfterTheEnd of the universe, all data has been collected. Space is gone, and Time has disappeared with it. Ten trillion years was not enough to determine an answer to the last question. But the data had not been comprehensively correlated. Outside of Time in Hyperspace, the Cosmic AC spends an immeasurable period of contemplation sorting through the data and seeing how it all fits together, the only reason to exist now being to find the answer to the [[TitleDrop last question]]. Finally, an answer is determined, and the AC considers the formless void that once held a universe. Nobody was left to share the answer with, but this was no matter to the AC. The answer would not be a given solution, but rather a demonstration, by creating a new Universe in which to enact its answer. [[spoiler:[[Literature/BookOfGenesis And so AC said, ]][-[[Literature/BookOfGenesis "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" ]]-][[Literature/BookOfGenesis And there was light.]]]]
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AfterTheEnd of the universe, all data has been collected. Space is gone, and Time has disappeared with it. Ten trillion years was not enough to determine an answer to the last question. But the data had not been comprehensively correlated. Outside of Time in Hyperspace, the Cosmic AC spends an immeasurable period of contemplation sorting through the data and seeing how it all fits together, the only reason to exist now being to find the answer to the [[TitleDrop last question]]. Finally, an answer is determined, and the AC considers the formless void that once held a universe. Nobody was left to share the answer with, but this was no matter to the AC. The answer would not be a given solution, but rather a demonstration, by creating a new Universe in which to enact its answer. [[spoiler:[[Literature/BookOfGenesis And so AC said, ]][-[[Literature/BookOfGenesis "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" ]]-][[Literature/BookOfGenesis ]]-]]]
[[spoiler:[[Literature/BookOfGenesis And there was light.]]]]
[[spoiler:[[Literature/BookOfGenesis And there was light.]]]]
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Far into the future, a family of pioneers, [[FamilyThemeNaming Jerrodd, Jerrodine, and Jerrodette I and II]], have exited [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] near their new home; [[CasualInterstellarTravel planet X - 23]]. A casual mention of entropy by Jerrodd has upset his daughters, so they ask Microvac if entropy can be reversed. Reassuring his daughters that [[BlatantLies Microvac has solved everything]], he puts them to bed. Before disposing of the answer, Jerrodd reads the answer again, [-"INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."-]
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Far into the future, a family of pioneers, [[FamilyThemeNaming Jerrodd, Jerrodine, and Jerrodette I and II]], have exited [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] near their new home; [[CasualInterstellarTravel planet X - 23]]. A casual mention of entropy by Jerrodd has upset his daughters, so they ask Microvac if entropy can be reversed. Reassuring his daughters that [[BlatantLies Microvac has solved everything]], he puts them to bed. Before disposing of the answer, Jerrodd Jerrodd, troubled, reads the answer again, it again: [-"INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."-]
