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A review by eni_se
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
5.0
This was weirdly funny. I mean, it’s not a humor book but somehow it was really funny. Existentialism is funny because of its absurdity I suppose. This book asks the question of: if science and technology become so advanced would they be essentially indistinguishable from God? And also, maybe, for the ultimate question about cosmology, what happens when all entropy reached the maximum, and will humanity will be there to see it in some shape or form? It’s a very cool short story.
The only nitpicks are that it’s a little weird that hundreds of years into the future, humanity still has binary genders and are using feet to measure distances haha whaat—especially weird considering humanity becomes a multi galactic species, so why would the default measure for distance be feet??Also, a choice that humanity never encountered other living species here.
The only nitpicks are that it’s a little weird that hundreds of years into the future, humanity still has binary genders and are using feet to measure distances haha whaat—especially weird considering humanity becomes a multi galactic species, so why would the default measure for distance be feet??Also, a choice that humanity never encountered other living species here.