My headline is a TRIBUTE!!! No disrespect intended.
(It actually doesn’t even make sense because “HAL” is the one who has passed away.)
Douglas Rain, the veteran Canadian stage actor who provided the soft and gentle voice of the rogue HAL 9000 computer for Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel, has died. He was 90.
Rain died Sunday morning at St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital outside Stratford, Ontario, the Stratford Festival announced.
…if you have Alexa, tell her to open the pod bay doors…
Still creeps me out to this day.
We are much closer to this reality
than most people can even imagine.
Yup, science fiction has become reality. And the truly creepy people in Silicon Valley are the puppeteers who have the goal of controlling every aspect of our lives.
Almost the only thing creepier are the voices of the Daleks on Dr. Who. EXTERMINATE! 2001 is still one of my all time favorite sci fi movies. I still think it was rather genius to have named the computer HAL since the first letters after HAL spell IBM, it was the ultimate insiders joke.
AI … so the Left won’t have to get their hands dirty.
I still haven’t seen that movie, but no need. We’re on the verge of living every SciFi theory in the next ten years.
For those who have heard and believed that HAL’s name was derived by subtracting one from each of the letters in IBM:
https://www.zinzin.com/observations/2014/how-hal-from-2001-a-space-odyssey-got-his-name-and-no-its-not-ibm-minus-one/
And yeah, I was one of them for a long time. Cool coincidence, though.
😉
Is it just me, or does HAL sound a little gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Were you a SF fan in the 50’s you knew HAL was a slam on what was then the world’s biggest computer maker
I B M !
move each letter over 1
Old guy
@an ol exJarhead: I was, and I used to think that too. Read my previous comment, though.
Older guy (I think). 🙂
Saw that movie on a school class trip! It was allowed and encouraged back in the day to take in some of the cultural events that were given to us from Hollywood. Also saw “How the west was won” a 3 hour (with intermission!) on elementary school class trip. I remember when Jenny informed me that one of the movie theme songs “I will build you a home on the prairie” was actually a version of “Greensleeves” that was itself a version of a biblical church hymn. How did she know that in fifth grade? (I should have married that girl!).
@TR: Forrest? Is that you?
HAL, the only queer, lip-reading computer ever invented. Yeah, it had gaydar, too.