Micro Memories

摘要

Perhaps the most influential computer was one that never actually existed: HAL 9000, the star of Stanley Kubrick's magnum sci-fi opus, 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001, which begins with a title card that reads "The Dawn of Man," is a look at man's four phases of intelligence: hominid, human, artificial intelligence, and finally, superman (in the Nietzschean-, not Clark Kent-sense, of course). In 1963 - shortly after completing Dr. Strangelove, his satiric classic of the Cold War — Kubrick was accepting the Best Director Award for the film from the New York Film Critics Circle. He said, "Don't laugh, but I'm fascinated with the possibility of extraterrestrials." In 1964, he struck up a writing partnership with (even back then) legendary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke by promising him a chance to co-write, "the proverbial good science fiction movie."