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Multivac is a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using machine code and later by any user, and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the genre ...
"The Life and Times of Multivac" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the 5 January 1975 issue of The New York Times Magazine , and was reprinted in the collections The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories and The Best of Creative Computing in 1976.
The success of Multivac has been so great, in fact, that the government is considering expanding its responsibilities beyond predicting crime; the government hopes to program Multivac to predict the occurrence of disease among the populace, eventually foreseeing (and preventing) every harmful event on the planet.
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete ...
Three influential leaders of the human race meet in the aftermath of a successful war against the Denebians.Discussing how the vast and powerful Multivac computer was a decisive factor in the war, each of the men admits that in fact, he falsified his part of the decision process because he felt that the situation was too complex to follow normal procedures.
Multivac, a series of supercomputers featured in a number of stories by Isaac Asimov (1955–1983) The Central Computer of the city of Diaspar in Arthur C. Clarke 's The City and the Stars (1956) Miniac , the "small" computer in the book Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine , written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams (1958)
Pages in category "Multivac short stories by Isaac Asimov" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Multivac will then use the answers and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held. The story centers around Norman Muller of Bloomington, Indiana , the man chosen as "Voter of the Year" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.