Examples of using Multivac in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Multivac Asimov.
The Life and Times of Multivac.
MULTIVAC is a leading manufacturer of chamber machines.
There are frequent mentions of corridors and people inside Multivac.
Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer in many stories by Isaac Asimov.
Ben, confused about what crime his father is accused of, goes to ask Multivac for advice.
Multivac fails, displaying the error message"INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER".
It is one of a loosely connected series ofstories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac.
Multivac, the world's largest supercomputer, is given the responsibility of analyzing the entire sum of data on the planet Earth.
Analyzing the probability of each crime coming up, Multivac informs law enforcement, who make sure the crimes do not occur.
The success of Multivac has been so great, in fact, that the government is considering expanding its responsibilities beyond even predicting crime;
Finally, Lamar Swift, Executive Director of the Solar Federation,reveals that he had not trusted the reports produced by Multivac, and had made the final decisions purely on the toss of a coin.
In spite of the arrest, Multivac reports that the odds of the crime happening increase because of the government's actions, and it continues to rise with every change.
Noel Meyerhof is a'Grand Master', one of a small cadre of Earth's recognised Geniuses, who has the insight to know what questions to ask Multivac. But a computer scientist is concerned that Meyerhof is acting erratically. As a known joke-teller, he has been discovered feeding jokes and riddles into Multivac.
In conceiving Multivac, Asimov was extrapolating the trend towards centralization that characterized computation technology planning in the 1950s to an ultimate centrally managed global computer.
To do this, he prepares a special computer program to run on Multivac, which he calls Joe, which has access to databases covering the entire populace of the world.
Multivac, Othman realizes, is tired; for years it has had all the troubles of the world upon its shoulders, analyzing and predicting war, famine, crime, and now the government is planning to foist the responsibility for preventing disease upon its already stressed mind.
The story deals with the development of computers called Multivacs and their relationships with humanity through the courses of seven historic settings, beginning in 2061.
It first appeared in the August 1955 issue of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough(1957) and Robot Dreams(1986). It is one of a loosely connected series ofstories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. It is the first story in which Asimov dealt with computers as computers and not as immobile robots.
The government hopes to program Multivac to even predict the occurrence of disease among the populace, eventually foreseeing every harmful event on the planet.
Max Jablonsky then admits that he altered the data that Multivac produced, since he knew that Multivac was not in good working order due to manpower and spare parts shortage.
The success of Multivac has been so great, in fact, that the government is considering expanding its responsibilities beyond even predicting crime; the government hopes to program Multivac to even predict the occurrence of disease among the populace, eventually foreseeing every harmful event on the planet.
In the future, the United States has converted to an"electronic democracy" where the computer Multivac selects a single person to answer a number of questions. Multivac will then use the answers and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held.
In possibly the most famous Multivac story,"The Last Question", two slightly drunken technicians ask Multivac if humanity can reverse the increase of entropy.
As the government begins to wonder if Multivac might be mistaken, the police holding the family ask if they are to continue allowing the other members to come and go as they please.
To confirm his suspicion, Othman asks Multivac a question never previously posed to the vast computer:"Multivac, what do you yourself want more than anything else?".
To confirm his suspicion, Othman asks Multivac a question never previously posed to the vast computer,"Multivac, what do you yourself want more than anything else?". Multivac's answer is succinct and unequivocal:"I want to die.".