About “Key Item”
Key Item is a 1968 short story by Isaac Asimov featuring Multivac, a fictional powerful computer appearing in over a dozen of Asimov's science fiction stories. Multivac, a mainframe accessible by terminal and used for directing the global economy and humanity's development, has been seen as the defining conceptualization of the computer genre for the 1950s-1960s and described as the direct ancestor of HAL 9000. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1968