Is this the begining of the rise of the Machines?

[oyster]

Does anyone have or know someone who has one of these Alex's things?

Someone who works in my office got one at Christmas. Spent a while over the next couple of days remotely making it play music to amuse his young son. Impressed by its ability to find and play any music he wants. Don't think he has mentioned it since.

I see little to no reason to get anything like that.

 

[soundwave]

Could it find my keys for me?

 

[NJS]

Should that be Patrick McGoohan - I am not a number etc etc

No.I had vague recollections of a corny old scifi plot where the hero disabled the baddies "supercomputer" by asking it one question; "Why?". The computer melted down trying to compute all the logical implications of the question.

My memory told me that this was Micheal Caine as Harry Plamer in the Billion Dollar Brain from 1967; but looking it up just now, probably not.

Possibly a plotline from an episode of Man from Uncle. I remember that Ilya Kuriakin was something of a computer wizz; and the plotline of killing the evil computer by asking it an impossible question is corny enough for that show

 

[JPGiant]

Here we go...

 

[NJS]

Here we go...

That's IT!

How fickle memory is