From: scd@cs.brown.edu (Steven C. Dollins)
Subject: PHIL: re: VR--Are we really the first?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 11:41:42 -0400



   [MODERATOR'S NOTE:  There is an Arthur C. Clarke story that takes another
   tack, Eben:  When it reaches capacity, the SuperMegaComputer of the future,
   that is all consciousness in the universe, thinks for a moment about the
   meaning of it all and then pronounces, "Let there be light...." -- Bob J.]


The pain!  The agony!  A Moderator spreading mis-information!
Imminent death of the net predicted!

The story to which you are referring, called, I believe,
"The Final Question", was written my Isaac Asimov.


					- Steven Dollins
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