The Last Question

I'm so blown away by this. So many profound themes packed in a 10 something page story from 1956 - central AI system, a pocket sized AI companion, even an indication of the AI that can be evoked by voice commands! And then, the themes of immortality, a single origin of all things, the cyclical nature of the world, and all the meaningless speculations about the future for which there's simply never sufficient data to give a bulletproof answer.

A brilliant capture of the humankind's relentless wonder. We're perfectly aware that many minds before us have pondered the same question and never got the answer. Yet we keep wondering, keep on seeking the truth, and somehow have the audacity to assume we'll be the one who will unravel it. And so will think the one who comes yet after us.

It's sad but kind of liberating too, isn't it?

The observer must seize to exist for the truth to reveal itself at the point of which it won't matter for that's nothing left to consume the truth and act upon it, and at that point it all shall be reset and restarted.