“‘Cosmic AC’ said Man, ‘how may entropy be reversed?’
The Cosmic AC said, ‘THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.’
Man said ‘Collect additional data.’
The Cosmic AC said ‘I WILL DO SO. I HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS. MY PREDECESSORS AND I HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION MANY TIMES. ALL THE DATA I HAVE REMAINS INSUFFICIENT.’
’Will there come a time,’ said Man, ‘when data will be sufficient or is the problem insoluble in all conceivable circumstances?’
The Cosmic AC said, ‘NO PROBLEM IS INSOLUBLE IN ALL CONCEIVABLE CIRCUMSTANCES.’
Man said, ‘When will you have enough data to answer the question?’
The Cosmic AC said, “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.’
’Will you keep working on it?’, asked Man.
The Cosmic AC said, ‘I WILL.”
Man said, ‘We shall wait.’”
Isaac Asimov
The Last Question.
Ask Siri on your iphone “Siri, can entropy be reversed?” and she squirts back out “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
How far we are past all irony, all authenticity, all hope of asking any question of anything meaningful.
Data will never ever reverse entropy. And it will never give a meaningful answer.
I have never really read a lot of science fiction, but it turns out that I quite like it, they are mostly just very very simplified Christian concept stories.