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Article: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE GREAT UNKNOWN; HISTORY SHOWS TV SHOWS, MOVIES WERE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 20, 1997
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Byline: Stephen Lynch Orange County Register
Maybe you missed it, but early this year, scientists in Illinois created the first artificial intelligence, a computer named HAL.
This happened, of course, after a group of genetically engineered supermen was defeated in a world war. Then New York was turned into a maximum security prison.
And today - Oct. 16, 1997 - the Jupiter II spacecraft will launch the first colonizers of the Alpha Centauri system, the Robinson family.
Welcome to the future.
The future, that is, predicted by popular science-fiction movies and television shows; respectively, ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' ``Star ...