It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people. Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer's Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the '70s and '80s to the feminine ones of the '90s and '00s. Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment. Why is Star Trek 's computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male.In 1972, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Drama for his performance as William Cecil in "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" on Broadway. Rain was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and trained at the Old Vic Theatre in London. "The thing that captured the audience's imagination back then more even than a chatty computer decades before Siri and Alexa was that unnervingly, HAL had a mind of his own," the NPR critic Bob Mondello wrote in April on the 50th anniversary of the film's release.Ī survey by the American Film Institute ranked HAL as the 13th-greatest villain in movie history. The red lens that served as the 'eye' of the HAL 9000 computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey' - one of the iconic images in movie history. "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it," HAL quietly tells astronaut Dave Bowman before proceeding to explain matter-of-factly that it had learned of Bowman's and Poole's plans to disconnect it by reading their lips. HAL concluded that the first command superseded the second. He had been given conflicting programming: Ensure the success of the mission at all costs, while also protecting the lives of the crew. ![]() HAL's reasoning and explanation were cold, precise and - at least in its mind - unavoidably logical. Rain's sinuous, detached reading of HAL's lines made the computer's murders of three astronauts as they slept in suspended animation and its subsequent stranding of astronaut Frank Poole to die in open space all the more shocking. The HAL 9000 computer was the sentient controller of life support, systems and - although it wasn't revealed until later in the movie - the very mission of Discovery One, the spacecraft that is sent to Jupiter to investigate a mysterious black obelisk in the landmark 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. ![]() dxcffgGEiA- Stratford Festival November 12, 2018 Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Today we lost Douglas Rain, a member of our founding company and a hugely esteemed presence on our stages for 32 seasons.
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