2001: A Space Odyssey — Really?
Looking back 56 years later on this enigmatic bit of sci-fi film-making.
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8 min readMay 12, 2024
Since 2018, a hilarious video has gone viral, “If HAL9000 was Amazon.com’s Alexa.”
The video’s creator has taken a scene where astronaut Dr. Dave Bowman is instructing the computer, HAL9000 to “Open the pod bay doors” and replaced HAL’s responses with the voice…