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 assembled humans. 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. Perhaps the greatest one-page science fiction ever written is ‘Answer’, by Fredric Brown.
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