Multivac, however, supplies the answer on its own.Īfter the reprint, another author, Robert Sherman Townes, noticed the climax in the last sentence was very similar to one of his own stories, "Problem for Emmy" ( Startling Stories, June 1952), and wrote to Asimov about it. The story concerns two technicians who are servicing Multivac, and their argument over whether or not the machine is truly intelligent and able to think.
It is the first of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional supercomputer called Multivac. The story first appeared in the March 1955 issue of Computers and Automation (thought to be the first computer magazine), and was reprinted in the April 30, 1957, issue of Science World. " Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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