Top 10 Evil Supercomputers!!

[Chicago Jake]

In honor of HAL 9000's birthday today, Wired has listed their top ten evil supercomputers. Except for the Dr. Who entries, I remember most of these. And no, Robin Hood's Windows 7 machine isn't included!

blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/top-10-evil-com.html

There are a lot of missing ones that I would have featured on that list, including several other Star Trek ones. Any suggestions from youse guys?....Jake

[Ardbeg... innit]

Before I even clicked the link, I had the answer for my #1 pick. HAL was not it, his evil nature was actually rather shallow, it was only a bad judgment call, only effected the crew of Discovery, plus he got redemption in the sequel.

Colossus has had my vote for decades because it was a collaborative effort between two supercomputers making good use of the pre-internet networking efforts to gain control of the worlds stockpiles of nuclear devices... AND make use of them.

[Chicago Jake]

Yep, I'd have to agree that Colussus, SkyNet, or The Matrix should probably be Numero Uno.

[Ardbeg... innit]

I heard that The Forbin Project was actually an early Al Gore biopic, during his networking heyday