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Author Topic: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.  (Read 5939 times)

Nilocy

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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #30 on: December 09, 2009, 06:48:40 pm »
oh yeah, I thought i knew i had seen the name of this story somewhere. This is a reading of it on BBC iplayer
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #31 on: December 10, 2009, 09:24:56 pm »
Oh if people want more Asimov... his book "I, Robot" is actually a collection of short stories. It's very good. Bears no resemblance to the horrible Will Smith movie.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #32 on: December 10, 2009, 09:27:25 pm »
Whaaaa? The movie was a fun ride, if not related in any real way to Asimov. It was fun.

I can understand how reading what it's extremely loosely based off could ruin that, though. Watchmen ruined the movie for me.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #33 on: December 10, 2009, 09:31:34 pm »
They found a way to incorperate details of most/all of the stories of the I, Robot book into the movie, but I liked the book better. The movie wasn't terrible either.

Also: The foundation series.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #34 on: December 10, 2009, 09:42:34 pm »
Quote from: moocowmoo on December 10, 2009, 09:24:56 pm
Oh if people want more Asimov... his book "I, Robot" is actually a collection of short stories. It's very good. Bears no resemblance to the horrible Will Smith movie.

I'd also give The Bicentennial Man (and other stories) a high recommendation. Bears little resemblance to the mediocre Robin Williams movie.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #35 on: December 11, 2009, 12:16:09 am »
Somewhere around here I have "The Complete Robot," a collection of most every robot story written by Asimov up 'till the publishing date. It's gonna be veeeeery interesting watching those stories come to life in the next 50-100 years.

Yes I plan on living at least 100 years, what of it?
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #36 on: December 11, 2009, 04:30:51 pm »
100 years? I plan to live forever.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #37 on: December 11, 2009, 05:29:50 pm »
Urgh, transhumanism.  I plan on living however many years and then dying.  Not only do I not believe that we will ever find immortality, I think it's a horrible idea, one of the reasons entailed in the story.  If nobody dies, we're going to run out of space very quickly.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #38 on: December 11, 2009, 05:34:38 pm »
I dunno... I don't wanna be 100. Hell I honestly don't wanna live more than like 10-20 more years from now.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #39 on: December 11, 2009, 05:51:00 pm »
Well, you have 10-20 years to change your mind about that.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #40 on: December 11, 2009, 06:18:43 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on December 11, 2009, 05:29:50 pm
Urgh, transhumanism.  I plan on living however many years and then dying.  Not only do I not believe that we will ever find immortality, I think it's a horrible idea, one of the reasons entailed in the story.  If nobody dies, we're going to run out of space very quickly.

Maybe, maybe not.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #42 on: December 12, 2009, 04:44:33 pm »
YOu are forgetting to take into account that all the most likely methods of archiving immortality remove the babymaking parts.
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #43 on: December 12, 2009, 05:21:00 pm »
Wait, what?


Where'd you hear that?
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Re: If you haven't read "The Last Question" by Isacc Asimov, you should do so.
« Reply #44 on: December 12, 2009, 05:29:03 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on December 11, 2009, 05:29:50 pm
Urgh, transhumanism.  I plan on living however many years and then dying.  Not only do I not believe that we will ever find immortality, I think it's a horrible idea, one of the reasons entailed in the story.  If nobody dies, we're going to run out of space very quickly.
The observable universe is 3E80 cubic meters in size. There's no "running out of space."

We will adapt. Humans are good at that.
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