
Now with the United States crazy mad-dog chained in a corner, the rest of the world are mending fences, and building bridges. The big war happened in 2019, China won. Choppy changes and incredible surprises coming up ahead. What a day! The anti-China trolls are out in rare form. The battle still rages, but the major threat is now neutralized.
Anything Is Much Better When There Are Animals Around. In praise of the often forgotten creamsicle. Welcome to the grand future that you are unprepared for. Exploring Fairy Tale Masterpieces By Ivan Bilibin. Sorry about the Geo-political stuff, but we are seriously in the shit right now. Big changes and it is beyond the United States ability to stop. But the mainstream “news” is all in a fury about the Pentagon leaker Thus I rewrote some sections after seeing the movie rushes - a rather expensive method of literary creation, which few other authors can have enjoyed.' The novel ended up being published a few months after the release of the movie" (Wikipedia article on Arthur C. 'This is more or less the way it worked out, though toward the end, novel and screenplay were being written simultaneously, with feedback in both directions. Originally, Clarke was going to write the screenplay for the film, but Kubrick suggested during one of their brainstorming meetings that before beginning on the actual script, they should let their imaginations soar free by writing a novel first, which the film would be based on upon its completion.
As the idea developed, it was decided that the story for the film was to be loosely based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", written in 1948 as an entry in a BBC short story competition. "Kubrick and Clarke had met in New York City in 1964 to discuss the possibility of a collaborative film project.
This is in contrast to the human astronauts, who speak in terse monotone, as do all other actors in the film" (Wikipedia article on HAL 9000, accessed 05-24-2009). He is, however, portrayed with a soft voice and a conversational manner. "HAL is never visualized as a single entity. HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, reasoning, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on an interplanetary voyage. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera "eyes" that can be seen throughout the Discovery spaceship. "HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. Perhaps the star of the film was the HAL 9000 computer. Clarke, captured imaginations with the idea of a computer that could see, speak, hear, and “think.” In 1968 the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by American film director Stanley Kubrick in collaboration with science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C.