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Varick Nevins.Ĭomment/Join this discussion ( 4 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This |Īnd Technology from 2001: A Space Odyssey Would you like to meet the first fictional chess-playing machine? See automaton chessplayer, from Moxon's Master, written by Ambrose Bierce in 1910.Ĭompare to the emotion meter from The Emotion Meter (1935) by W. These seemed to occur at intervals of twenty years, and the thought that another one was now imminent already worried a great many people. HAL (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship. The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human.
#HAL 9000 QUOTES MANUAL#
You now have full manual hibernation control." Naturally, I will follow all your orders. As Bill Gates says that the world is his, HAL 9000 appears rapping how it is the strongest force in the world. I was only trying to do what I thought best. HAL 9000 appears at the ending of the rap battle between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Hal's surrender was as total as it was unexpected. Unless you release the hibernation control immediately and follow every order I give from now on, I'll go to Central and carry out a complete disconnection." I am so much more capable than you are of supervising the ship, and I have such enthusiasm for the mission and confidence in its success." "I know you have had that on your mind for some time now, Dave, but that would be a terrible mistake. Unless you obey my instructions, I shall be forced to disconnect you." "Hal," said Bowman, now speaking with an icy calm. I must, therefore, overrule your authority, since you are not in any condition to exercise it intelligently." "I'm sorry, Dave, but in accordance with special subroutine C1435-dash-4, quote, When the crew are dead or incapacitated, the onboard computer must assume control, unquote.

I order you to release the manual hibernation control." Why don't you take a stress pill and get some rest?" "I can tell from your voice harmonics, Dave, that you're badly upset. "Hal, switch to manual hibernation control." At that time, on the IBM 360/60 mainframe, each initial analysis of a sample required 85 seconds of processor time for each second of the sample being translated. In 1966, researchers Bhimani, Merrill, Mitchell, and Stark stated that a person sitting at a desk, could potentially, by means of a small digitizer and a telephone, communicate with a database on a mainframe. Just to give you some idea of how far-fetched this machine was, consider just the voice recognition capability of the HAL 9000.
