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Don't care how. Why? Because I have no desire to extend my life to some arbitrary point in the far future where I might be alive, but only trivially functional compared to now. Even if you could bring me back as a young person, I would have no desire.

Continuing to exist is a parlor trick. Ceasing to exist is a trick not permitted to us.

As for the state of things while we (sentient life) are here, I think that evolution generally handles things like long-term memory pretty well, without the weight of previous centuries to get us stuck in the mud. Death and life are transitory fluctuations.

Cool.

On a slightly more optimistic note is Asimov's "The Last Question", another computer as God story.

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the...

They should rename it Multivac, as in Asimov's short story: "The Last Question" : http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/

Read The Last Question.

Twice now it has been posted "Not only should you read The Last Question, but you should ALSO read The Last Answer"

And twice now you have attempted to claim they intended to say "You should not only read The Last Question, but also read a totally different story called The Last Question"

Why do you refuse to believe there are two stories by the same author with different names?

The Last Question: http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
The Last Answer: http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/

Perhaps you should make yourself aware of both of them, before attempting to correct others who know what they mean to say :P

The GGP mentioned The Last Question, so I think the AC really was referring to The Last Answer.