Neil Fraser: Google = Multivac

by Mathew on December 29, 2009 · View Comments

In 1958 Isaac Asimov wrote a short story titled "All the Troubles of the World" (included in the collection "Nine Tomorrows"). It described a world transformed by Multivac, a giant all-knowing computer. Asimov died in 1992, a mere four years before Larry and Sergey started their project "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Below are selected quotes from Asimov’s story (no spoilers), next to relevant imagery from Google.

via Neil Fraser: News: Google Multivac.

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  • NewsNeus

    Multivac would say:
    010101000110100101110010011001010110010000100000011011110110011000100000011101000110100001101111011100110110010100100000011010000111010101101101011000010110111001110011
    Traduction:
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  • http://www.hypercrit.net Michael Becker

    Aw, great! Now there's yet another story I have to ad to my reading list. Thanks a lot!

  • http://www.toejeksperten.dk/ Toej

    If google kept on its journey with the speed it is going I predict that the word internet will be replaced by google and internet will become a part of google.

  • http://www.seolinkwheelers.com/ linkwheels

    Great story,thanks a lot for the post.

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