(一)一百年后终极问题首次提出来,是在人类刚跨入黎明期的2061年5月21日,而且还是两位技术员喝了酒后用五美元打赌的结果。阿德尔和吕波夫是巨型电脑地球AC(“自动电脑”的英文缩写)的两位忠实值班员。这个巨型电脑有副冷淡的面孔,它的躯体伸展无数千米。它能够自我调整和修正,它也必须如此,因为根本没人能修理它。几十年来,它帮助设计宇宙飞船,测算轨道,把人类送上月球、火星和金星。但地球的可怜资源慢慢承受不 (A) The ultimate question was raised for the first time in a hundred years from the moment humanity entered the dawn of May 21, 2061, and it was the result of two technicians having spent five dollars on drinking. Adel and Lvbov are two loyal attendants of the giant Computer Earth AC (“acronym” for “Automatic Computer”). This giant computer has cool faces, and its body stretches innumerable kilometers. It can be self-tuning and correction, it must be so, because no one can fix it. For decades, it helped design spacecraft, orbit, send humans to the moon, Mars and Venus. But the earth's poor resources are not suffering slowly