It started with all of the energy stations in the world being hooked up to a single computer that would regulate all of the energy consumption in the world. Two guys asked it what would it do if the sun went out and the computer had no answer.
It skips forward to a family traveling to a new start because their original star had burned out. They asked the master computer thing what would humanity do if all the stars were gone. The computer had no answer.
It skips forward more and everyone had left their physical bodies behind. They could talk to each other telepathically and no one died any more. I forgot what they asked but the computer had no answer.
The last skip is when the last human soul is about to assimilate with all of the other souls. He wondered what would happen next.
The universe ended and the computer program had gathered all of the data it needed. Then it began to work with it until it had the ultimate answer to everything. It needed to show its work to somebody but everyone was gone. It decided that a demonstration was in order. The last words were spoken by the program "Let there be light!"
So yeah, if you know what the name of the story is I'd really appreciate it. It's been bugging me all day.
It skips forward to a family traveling to a new start because their original star had burned out. They asked the master computer thing what would humanity do if all the stars were gone. The computer had no answer.
It skips forward more and everyone had left their physical bodies behind. They could talk to each other telepathically and no one died any more. I forgot what they asked but the computer had no answer.
The last skip is when the last human soul is about to assimilate with all of the other souls. He wondered what would happen next.
The universe ended and the computer program had gathered all of the data it needed. Then it began to work with it until it had the ultimate answer to everything. It needed to show its work to somebody but everyone was gone. It decided that a demonstration was in order. The last words were spoken by the program "Let there be light!"
So yeah, if you know what the name of the story is I'd really appreciate it. It's been bugging me all day.