Imagine that a meeting was held in your respective department on including ‘The Last Question’ a short story authored by Isaac Asimov in the B.Tech curriculum.
Prepare the minutes of the meeting describing the discussion that took place regarding the inclusion of the afore-mentioned Isaac Asimov’s story in the B.Tech curriculum.
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"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was anthologized in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1 (1990). It was Asimov's favorite short story of his own authorship,[1][2] and is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. The story overlaps science fiction, theology, and philosophy.
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In the meeting today following discussion and point of view was presented⬇️
Back at that time science fiction writers often wrote short little novelty stories with “gotcha” endings. Some were rather humorous (in fact Asimov and Clarke engaged in a long-standing competition of short story puns (I consider Clarke the ultimate winner with “Neutron Tide.” Others were more serious in tone and yet others played with philosophical or cosmological concepts. “The Last Question” was one of these latter ones. They were never meant to be taken overly seriously as containing any truly “deep” message or profound thought, merely to be quirky “what-if” stories that could make you go, “Huh,” before passing on to something else.
Because Asimov knew a lot, and worked hard to write a lot of real science into everything he did, it’s much better than the average “clever” short story, but nevertheless, “clever” it is, and nothing more.I myself never found it “thought provoking,” or “deep” in any way.Really just a way for a man who liked to express his thinking via fun fiction, to get paid to say “here’s a story based on the idea that the universe is cyclical and self-replicating.” With a jokish cross reference to the King James version of the Christian Bible tossed in for laughs.
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