![]() With a content of just under 4,500 words, that’s about 2.2 billion years per word! The best way to analyze the plot is to consider it in terms of the different generations of computer that were asked ‘the last question’. The story takes place over a period of more than ten trillion years, commencing in 2061. The latter seems more appealing to me as, for some reason beyond my scientific understanding, the ability to reverse entropy is said to be one of the prerequisites for time travel. ![]() The transferred knowledge could either be the story itself, handed down over the various generations of computer, or the secret of reversing entropy. This raises the intriguing possibility that the narrator is from the new universe created by AC, and that some form of knowledge transfer has taken place from AC. However, AC can’t be the narrator as by literary convention the point of view should have switched to first person when it became a character in the story. The only intelligence remaining in the universe at the end of the story was AC. The story is written from a third person objective point of view. The first question which should be asked about The Last Question is who could have narrated it. We’ll start this analysis on a light note. Back to our Information Page Point of View
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