Sounds kinda like "The Last Question" by Asimov, but not quite. I might have thought about it partly because of the anecdote about it being hard to remember. h

Sounds kinda like "The Last Question" by Asimov, but not quite. I might have thought about it partly because of the anecdote about it being hard to remember. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question#History