![]() ![]() Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. Later, an argument develops when one of the two, Adel, contends that that the solar power supply will last forever: ![]() After this achievement, we then see the Multivac’s two attendants, who are hiding from the publicity in an underground chamber, having a drink and relaxing. In this tale, after the computer has been running for several decades, it finally develops a system that provides unlimited solar power for humanity. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov ( Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1956) 1 is a one of his “Multivac” stories about a giant computer. ![]()
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