The Letter Stanley Kubrick Wrote About IBM and HAL

The always-fascinating blog, Letters of Note, has released another wonderful bit of corporate correspondence. This time, they found a letter Stanley Kubrick sent to a production staffer about the inclusion of IBM in his film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is — awkward! — about a psychotic computer. How nice of him to check in!

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