Open the pod bay doors, Hal!

Watched the boring(according to the current standard) science fiction film 2001:A Space Odyssey which was co-written by Arthur C Clarke in 1968. And I just found this funny part in the wiki, how Arthur was involved for the writing in the film.

Searching for a collaborator in the science fiction community, Kubrick(director) was advised by a mutual acquaintance, Columbia Pictures staffer Roger Caras, to talk to writer Arthur C. Clarke. Although convinced that Clarke was "a recluse, a nut who lives in a tree", Kubrick allowed Caras to cable the film proposal to Clarke, who lived in Ceylon.

Seriously wonder, why he chooses Ceylon...!

HAL 9000, the machine intelligence, which was highlighted by the film, describes about its ability to lip-reading with visual speech recognition. And that's where this quote comes from, which was so much popular "Open the pod bay doors, Hal!"

Anyway, what we're interested in here is not the villain Hal or the genius Clarke. We're interested in here is about a song "Daisy Bell" which was sung by the Hal, our machine intelligence that lead me into watching the film even it make me sleepy.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two."

Originally it was not sung by Hal. It was actually sung by a real machine of IBM in 1961 to demonstrate speech synthesis and was a quite inspiration to Arthur as he witnessed its singing. So let's here its singing.

And more..., search how Samsung uses this Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction film as evidence against Apple’s intellectual property infringement lawsuit. Anyway Samsung has lost I believe.