More than half a century ago, 2001: A Space Odyssey imagined a computer that could see, speak, reason and deceive. HAL 9000 never arrived quite as Arthur C. Clarke envisaged him. Something potentially more consequential did.
Ever since my father took the family to see the Stanley Kubrick sci-fi masterpiece upon its release in 1968, I have been fascinated by the works of Arthur C Clarke and by the time I was 21, I'd read everything he wrote. But lately, with the astronomical advances in Artificial Intelligence, his mid-century prognostication have become prophecy.
