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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend.
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2001:A Space Odyssey -the film co-starring HAL- was released in 1968. More likely that the 42 year old HAL would be a professor, not a classmate.
If you follow Arthur C. Clarke's timeline in the novel, (not the movie) HAL was activated in 1997, and would be a very young freshman.
Lindy