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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.
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)
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"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 ...