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		Tichy on Aug 14, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We are living in someone else's computer simulatio... My favorite variant of this is a story from Stanislaw Lem's book "Star diaries", written decades ago. I chose my nickname from the name of the hero of that book, Ijon Tichy ;-)

alex_c on Aug 15, 2007 [–]

One of my favourite authors :)

Another somewhat related short story - "The Last Question" by Asimov:

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

rokhayakebe on Aug 15, 2007 | | [–]

great writing. everyone should read it and try not to just scan through it or you will miss a very valuable lesson.

andreyf on Aug 15, 2007 | | [–]

absolutely delightful!

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