Notes of this form are stereotypically written by young schoolchildren to gauge or incite romantic interest. Isaac is supposed to check an answer and hand the note back, but Isaac (whose pen is red) has written and selected a third answer, "there is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer", mirroring the way his computers in the short story responded. The note asks Isaac to identify whether he likes the note-writer by choosing either “yes” or “no”. The comic depicts a note to “Isaac”, a clear reference to Asimov's name, but possibly depicts what life would have been like for him as a child. In the end, the final computer figured out the answer, but there were no humans left to give the answer to. The computers always answered "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER". The comic is a reference to a short story by Isaac Asimov " The Last Question", where humans kept asking successively more complex computers whether entropy can be reversed, thereby preventing the heat death of the universe. 'I like you,' he declared to the void, 'but I don't LIKE like you.' GradeSaver, 25 April 2020 Web.Title text: The universe long dead, IsaAC surveyed the formless chaos. Next Section Glossary Previous Section The Fun They Had Video Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Rothstein, Talia. He reassures Margie and her mother that it was not her fault that the geography tests were too hard. The Inspector takes apart the teacher and puts it back together, resetting its geography level to an average ten-year-old level. Margie's mother sends for him when Margie's teacher malfunctions and gives her geography tests that are too hard. The County Inspector is described as a round little man with a red face. She also enforced the timing of Margie's schooling, believing that school should happen at the same time every day. For example, she called the County Inspector to come fix Margie's teacher when it kept giving her geography tests that were too hard. She appears in the story only in relation to Margie's schooling, about which she has strong opinions. Margie hates the teacher, which is described as "large and black and ugly" with a slot where she has to insert homework. The mechanical teacher is a robot programmed to individually suit Margie's learning needs. He initiates the story by finding a paper book in his attic, and brings it over to show Margie. He is thirteen years old, two years older than Margie, and often answers her questions in an all-knowing tone. She imagines that children used to have a lot more fun when school was in person. Margie hates school and particularly dislikes her mechanical teacher's lessons in geometry. She is inquisitive, asking many questions of her older friend Tommy. Margie Jones is the protagonist of "The Fun They Had." She is an eleven-year-old girl living in 2155, in what appears to be a stable, middle-class home.
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