![]() In fact, the way I am interacting at this moment with my computer is numbered, we are already living the first satisfactory experiences of voice interfaces. In these fifty years we have lived through a revolution in the world of communications through the Internet and we have also experienced the birth and death of Graphic User Interface, as a basic form of communication with computers. It is easy to see the similarities between HAL and Alexa and much easier to meditate on the path we are about to undertake. Precisely in 1968, a group of scientists, among whom were Vinton Cerf, Paul Baran, Larry Roberts or Leonard Kleinrock, were laying the foundations of what would later be known as the Internet.įifty years later, I am writing these words on my computer while I order Alexa to play the soundtrack of “2001, A Space Odyssey” and I ask my Google Home Mini to turn on the irrigation of the garden. HAL 9000 is revealed to us during the film as a thinking being who, when the time is right, is able to confront the human being and refuse to comply with the orders received. HAL 9000 was not only a computer, something extremely unusual in the sixties, but also it was able to talk and receive commands without using any terminal, you just had to talk to him. Possibly, one of the things that most caught the attention of the spectator of the time was the appearance of a computer, as an active character in the plot. Logically we are talking about “2001, A Space Odyssey”. Clarke called The Sentinel which was about the future of humanity, technology or artificial intelligence, among other topics. ![]() Disguised as a science fiction film, from Stanley Kubrick’s mind, the adaptation of a story written in 1948 by Arthur C. In 1968 one of the most disturbing films in the history of cinema was released. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
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