If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

A haunting short story called the “The Last Question” (see Asimov 1959) tells how a pair of drunken technicians one night ask a supercomputer whether there is a way to reverse the increase of entropy and thereby halt the death of the universe.

Wow. The last question