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Stephen Hawking

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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Stephen Hawking is saying that once computers stop working, they simply cease to exist and do not continue in any form like an afterlife. He compares the idea of a computer afterlife to a comforting myth made up by people who fear the unknown.

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