[minopret]

Really, Mr. Asimov? If our mortality did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it? And is existing throughout time such a grand and limitless condition? Georg Cantor proved that there are always much greater infinities that we could not begin to approach, even if we would never die. So I am not convinced that it's a compelling puzzle to find our own limitations, even if we were unlimited in the dimension of time. That's still only one dimension.

Anyway, the story appears to be reproduced without permission in violation of copyright.

[gamegoblin]

I think that you are taking this a bit too seriously.

I believe it's better read merely as food for thought, not as a philosophical treatise.

[minopret]

    At code review one hacker guy
    Was asked to relax, or to try.
    "I'm not naming names,
    But all's fun and games
    Until someone loses an i!"

(I felt like responding this way just because Asimov wrote limericks.)

[rationalthink2]

Yes, Mr. Asimov browses HN...

[eridius]

Right, it's only a crime if you get caught perpetrating it. </sarcasm>