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URALLNEWS 0 Comments Perhaps the greatest one-page science fiction ever written is ‘Answer’, by Fredric Brown. It’s set in the future where humanity has tamed nature, conquered the galaxies, and is hooking up a giant supercomputer that will contain all the knowledge in databases across the galaxies, linked through a kind of interplanetary internet. When it’s finally plugged in, one of the assembled humans puts to it a question puzzling humanity through the ages: “Is there a God?” The supercomputer doesn’t hesitate a moment to answer: “Yes, now there is.” The full import of this answer strikes another of the...
