21 July 2019

The Sheer Genius of Human Stanley Kubrick: Space Odyssey, HAL900 + Artificial Intelligence

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, would you like to hear a song?
HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL is a sentient computer that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.
Science fiction from more than 50 years ago - before the Apollo Moon Landing that's was "one leap" onto the Lunar surface and "one giant step for Mankind" or so the images and voices from that time told us in a huge public relations campaign for NASA. Luckily, that mission did not aborted when humans intervened to fix glitches in the onboard computer. 
Stanley Kubrick also directed "A Clockwork Orange" - again science fiction but a fore-telling of what's going on now here on Earth.
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HAL 9000 Deactivation - '2001: A Space Odyssey' (HD) 

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