Hal Timeline and Summary
MoreHal Timeline and Summary
- Computer technology through the 1980s and 1990s (of the novel) figured out how to grow computer brains similar to human ones.
- Hal became operational in 1997.
- He was tasked with running Discovery, and secretly told that the mission was to find aliens.
- He wasn't supposed to tell the non-hibernating crew members.
- Keeping a secret went against his basically truthful nature, and he went insane, killing all crew members except for David Bowman.
- David Bowman disconnects him.
- Goodbye, Hal.