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HAL 9000′s Apple Sister Siri Goes Nuclear on Google Search–Leo Laporte Warns PubCon to Duck & Cover

Posted on November 24, 2011 by RobertRiggs

James Benham barks orders into his new iPhone4s for the location of a nearby restaurant and a reminder to call his wife when he leaves his office.   More than thirty times a day an obedient assistant named Siri serves up answers to Benham.

Siri’s feminine voice eerily sounds like what I imagine to be the sister of HAL 9000 from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.

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Predator Drone TV: Eye in the Sky Protects Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan

Posted on September 24, 2011 by RobertRiggs

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA OCTOBER 2004

 

In the space of a few minutes, Air Force Captain Catherine Platt says she makes a surreal trip from a pitched battle over Iraq to the choreographed musical fountains in front of the luxurious Bellagio Casino on the Las Vegas strip.

The six-year veteran intelligence officer flies into combat zones half way around the world without ever leaving the ground at her Nevada air base, “You definitely feel that you … Continue Reading »


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