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> buy some time, but nothing lasts forever That reminded me of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. Quite enjoyable if you haven't read it already: https://www.m
by selcuka 6y ago
> buy some time, but nothing lasts forever
That reminded me of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. Quite enjoyable if you haven't read it already: https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
- JumpCrisscross 6y agoI remember, when I first read this story, thinking how quaint this notion was: "In his father's youth, the only computers had been tremendous machines taking up a hundred square miles of land. There was only one to a planet. Planetary ACs they were called." Yet here we are, consolidating our planet's computing power to a handful of cloud computing providers.