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Let’s get real old school for a minute!

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of my favourite movies of all time. I never realised the significance of the song that HAL sings as he is shut down until I read this blog post. According to Wikipedia, Arthur C Clarke was so impressed with hearing a speech synthesis demonstration at Bell Labs in 1961 that he used the song in the climactic scene where HAL is shit down.

You can hear a recording of the demonstration here. (The clip is only about 2 minutes long - HAL’s song is near the end.)

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Rob Says:
July 30th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
I did not know that! That is too cool. Wicked even! Paranoid Android.

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