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Clarke in 1952.

The Arthur C. Clarke retrospective is now live. Clarke had a phenomenal impact on science fiction and popular science with the gift to communicate complex scenarios based on advanced physics and cosmology in a way that they could be understood by everyone, without being patronizing - even when the stories were somewhat scientific and obscure in nature. He exhibited, and was able to inspire, a natural curiosity in the world around us.


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Buy all means, add a mosaic(above)to your site. It should work automatically - if not, add a line-break to the source code and there it is.

This series of exercises focuses on the question of artificial or robotic cognitive impairment in the form of HAL 9000; and we have livened the pages with an original audio mash-up from the film, including the scene where Hal sings the 19th century song "Daisy."

A Boy's Life of Cosmic Wonder - New York Times

Arthur C. Clarke: The Wired Worlds (Wired)

Arthur C. Clarke in Entertainment Weekly


5 Reasons Why We'll Miss Arthur C. Clarke - Mental Floss

Listen to the story "Exile of the Eons" (Nemesis) (mp3) about the folly of world conquest

Labels: 2001, chandra, clarke, floyd, hal9000, kubrick, MCI, odyssey marine, sciencefiction, spacce, urbana

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We just noticed that the Stephen Hawking test and Hal9000 'game' had gone somewhat quiet, that was due to a directory path change that happened without our volition on the servers - that has been rectified so that those assets are properly called within the application.

Much better.

Hal 9000
Stephen Hawking talk

Labels: Flash, hal9000, haldron, hawking, heuristic

Hold on to your freedom fries. En Francais, HAL from the film 2001, was actually known as CARL, for Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et de Liaison ("Analytic Research and Communication Brain"). Head down to external links on Wikipedia's entry for HAL and at the bottom, you'll be able to exercise your brain and and listen to the voice of Hal. FUN. There is lots of good information here, including notes on the making of the film. Would be fun to see a remastered version in a theater sometime, to get a sense of what that was like.

Labels: 2001, algorithmic, hal, hal9000, heuristic, memorytv, space_odyssey