Is this how it starts?

[HaRuMaN]

Cyberdyne: Leaing Edge of Cybernetics

Hmm...  Skynet anyone?

Also, they're building a HAL...

The end is near!

[HaRuMaN]

Quote from website: "We strongly believe that technologies should be designed for the benefits of humankind."

Yeah.  I've heard that before...

[ChadTower]

The irony of his comment when combined with his avatar has my head spinning.   

[Mauzy]

Lets hope they read 2001. They can't make the same mistakes that were made in the book. The HAL computer CAN NOT be singin' "Daisy, Daisy...".

[ChadTower]

I just finished 2001 a couple weeks ago.  Great book.  My son is reading it now - heavy reading for a 9 year old but he's almost done.

[Mauzy]

I had read it a couple years ago and decided to reread it about a month ago. The first time I read it I found it a little hard to stay focused toward the end (don't want to post any spoilers, im sure you can guess what was a little hard to keep my attention.) and I was 15! This time around it was easier. If your 9 year old finds it interesting, my hat goes off to him.

Have you read 2010? Its not as good but it ties up the story of Discovery and whatever happened to HAL and Bowman. Im rereading that now. 

[HaRuMaN]

I just watched 2010, and went and picked up the books a day later.  Still haven't gotten around to reading them yet, working on the Dune series right now.

[ChadTower]

Have you read 2010? Its not as good but it ties up the story of Discovery and whatever happened to HAL and Bowman. Im rereading that now. 

I'm reading 2010 now.  I picked up the whole series, along with a whole lot of Asimov, Herbert, Sagan, and similar, super cheap at the local library book sale recently.  Got enough now to last a year or more.

Haven't watched 2001 yet, though.  We're waiting until my son finishes the book and then we'll do it up with the projector.

[SithMaster]

I just watched 2010, and went and picked up the books a day later.  Still haven't gotten around to reading them yet, working on the Dune series right now.

Dune is awesome.  I was fortunate enough to start from the prequels and work my way to the original Dune.  After that I stopped and then found the latest one on sale so I skipped the Children Of and the others.  I just wish the movie was better.

[HaRuMaN]

I'm currently reading the Machine Crusade...

I liked the movie, but I would agree that the book is FAR better.

[Mauzy]

Have you read 2010? Its not as good but it ties up the story of Discovery and whatever happened to HAL and Bowman. Im rereading that now. 

I'm reading 2010 now.  I picked up the whole series, along with a whole lot of Asimov, Herbert, Sagan, and similar, super cheap at the local library book sale recently.  Got enough now to last a year or more.

Haven't watched 2001 yet, though.  We're waiting until my son finishes the book and then we'll do it up with the projector.

I wasn't even aware of the other two sequels after 2010 until about a week ago. Ill pry pick em up when I have some cash. I haven't seen the movie either.

[HaRuMaN]

Usually I like to watch the movie first, then read the book.

Other way around, I usually end up disappointed.

[Ummon]

2061 was decent. Though of the really old school, Clarke was able to be somewhat culturally updated in it and the Rama books. 3001 I just couldn't get into, however.

[ChadTower]

I wasn't even aware of the other two sequels after 2010 until about a week ago. Ill pry pick em up when I have some cash. I haven't seen the movie either.

I was lucky... at the library book sale they had them all lined up in the right order for $1.50 each old printings and hardcover (except 2001 which is paperback).

[ChadTower]

Haven't watched 2001 yet, though.  We're waiting until my son finishes the book and then we'll do it up with the projector.

We did this saturday night... so, I gotta ask, WTF is with the movie?  It skips over huge important details and doesn't explain how it has moved from A to D without a B or C.  If I hadn't read the book I would not have understood a damn thing.

[SavannahLion]

2061 was decent. Though of the really old school, Clarke was able to be somewhat culturally updated in it and the Rama books. 3001 I just couldn't get into, however.

Woah, there's a 3001? Oh I see, published in 1997. I stopped reading Clarke's books in '96.  Gotta check into that.

The Rama books are pretty decent. Clarke really only wrote the first. Lee wrote the rest of the series with Clarke really only acting as editor. As such, the feel for the later books are quite different.