{"id":469,"date":"2011-01-05T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/the-last-question\/"},"modified":"2011-01-05T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:30:00","slug":"the-last-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/the-last-question.html","title":{"rendered":"The Last Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticrevolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/asimov-the-last-question.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roboticrevolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/asimov-the-last-question.jpg\" width=\"162\"><\/a>I was reminded recently of the story \u201cThe Last Question\u201d by Isaac Asimov. It explores the intersection between religion and science fiction in an intriguing fashion (and presumably served as the inspiration for George Zebrowski\u2019s novel <em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Macrolife-Mobile-Utopia-George-Zebrowski\/dp\/0759241694?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Macrolife<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0759241694\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/span><\/em>). <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\">I discovered that the story is available online, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multivax.com\/last_question.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the original text<\/a> and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multivax.com\/images.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a graphic novel<\/a>\u00a0(although the latter is not a good quality scan).<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\">If you\u2019ve never read the story, I highly recommend it. <\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\">And once you\u2019ve done so, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multivax.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ask MultiVAX <em>the last question<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eduify.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/The-Last-Question-Title.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.eduify.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/The-Last-Question-Title.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9042429813120705366?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded recently of the story \u201cThe Last Question\u201d by Isaac Asimov. 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