A future imperfect?

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Frequently outlandish visions of the future suggest that technology has not progressed as fast as we were expecting. Is IT dragging its feet? Colin Barker reports

When Arthur C Clarke?s great creation, HAL, the homicidal computer, first appeared in 1968 in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, it (or is that he, or even she?) offered a compelling and believable po...

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