• TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website
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    Kubrick hired highly skilled IBM’s engineers for the designs of HAL9000 (they failed but seeing data center they didn’t fail that much). They were futurist

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      They failed only because the concept of personal computers wasn’t really a thing yet. Computers were basically mainframes, maybe with a remote terminal. With that basis to work from, it’s harder to make the jump to PCs, tablets, and smartphones.