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Daisy Bell (aka Bicycle Built For Two)
"The use of Harry Dacre’s 1892 song in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey was a direct reference to a notorious 1962 experiment, in which Max Matthews programmed an early IBM computer at Bell Labs to recite the song, recorded as the first ever successful use of synthesized speech emissions. The gesture of using the song to represent HAL’s recitations of his foundational system checks as they are reset by Bowman, seems to imply that in his full extension to the point of death, he, like the humans who created him in their image, is returning to his origins, mirroring the final symbol of the Starchild."
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