Quote:
He provided the example of music, a field he worked in extensively, and the negative reaction of musicians’ unions to synthesizers in the 1980s, driven by fears that these working professionals would lose the opportunity to make money. As Kurzweil pointed out, instead of losing the ability to make money, their profession simply evolved. “If you go to a music conference now, it’s like a computer conference with these very powerful musical tools where musicians can command a whole orchestra, and so forth, and actually do a lot more with the technology. In fact, music is more vibrant than ever and musicians are very much in demand.”

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nataly-kelly/ray-kurzweil-on-translati_b_875745.html

That can’t be right, he said musicians evolved. Apparently he doesn’t know the musicians from the RIAA.

I wonder if anyone here has worked out that
HAL 9000

+1 (char/number) = IBM 9001

That Kubric !!!! what will he think off next !!!

H + 1 = I
A + 1 = B
L + 1 = M

9000 + 1 = 9001

Both Clarke and Kubrick have gone on record saying that the HAL/IBM connection is coincidence and it actually stands for Heuristic ALgorithm, which incidentally is the basis of a lot of current machine learning programs.