Multivac

First published in 1955, it's about a fictional computer called Multivac that poses a series of questions to a single citizen to determine the outcome of an election that then doesn't have to be held.

Crawling Through the Wreckage 2008

How else could the human mind keep up with that ten-mile-long lump of solidified reason that men called Multivac, the most complex computer ever built?

The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990

Every four years, one voter is picked to be hooked up to a computer called "Multivac."

Murray Hill Inc.: Watson, Come Here, I Need You! Murray Hill Inc. 2011

Every four years, one voter is picked to be hooked up to a computer called "Multivac."

Murray Hill Inc.: Watson, Come Here, I Need You! Murray Hill Inc. 2011

The answer, provided by an all-powerful computer that is in the beginning known as Multivac, but later takes other names, is always the same … The ending may be predicted by the most prescient readers, but not by me; and even if I could predict it I would still think it brilliant.

Isaac Asimov - "The Last Question" (Short Story Review) 2008

The answer, provided by an all-powerful computer that is in the beginning known as Multivac, but later takes other names, is always the same … The ending may be predicted by the most prescient readers, but not by me; and even if I could predict it I would still think it brilliant.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

Isaac Asimov did the same with the Internet via his Multivac creation.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

Did you ever read Asimov's stories about Multivac?

SF saw it first? Glenda Larke 2009

Or like Isaac Asimov's Multivac, which I've blogged about before twice.

Could The Net Become Self-Aware? 2009

I suppose it's different from what you're writing about in that Multivac is directly dealing with humanity, or the evolved form of humanity, whereas "your" thinking machine is devoid of such contact.

notes on the Machine Neil Colquhoun 2009