Picture above is from the film '2010', so it's not HAL – but…

On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight I finally have an excuse to point out to the excellent blogpost on Kosmograd:  Why 2010 wont be like '2010'

Whereas HAL looked out into our world, today we look into the world created within the computer. […] Our ambition seems to have shrunk to the size of a touchscreen tablet. Expect a monolith of a very different kind.

Good night song: Miljoonasade – Fly on Juri Gagarin