Excellent points- Captain!

Tom, the guy that got my web site up and running many years ago was the first PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana, which of course was where HAL 9000 was developed, as he reveals while singing Daisy, Daisy as Dave unplugs his memory modules. As fate would have it Tom was one of the developers of the first intelligent computer, you know, one with artificial intelligence, voice recognition/speech capability, resourcefulness, etc. That early intelligent computer at Urbana was what HAL was based on. Too bad they never made a movie of 2030 in which they find, retrieve and revive the other astronaut, the one that HAL cut loose and apparently killed in 2001.

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica