2001: uso pela Odisseia no Espaço da música "Daisy Bell" (Bicycle Built for Two); a vida imita arte ou vice-versa?

Na realidade foi Arthur C. Clarke quem conheceu o trabalho e foi inspirado por ele

Who can forget HAL being reduced to drivel while singing composer Harry Dacre’s 1892 classic standard “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)”? Clarke got the idea for the scene from a 1962 visit to Bell Labs; where, as Benson explains, he’d heard voice-synthesizer experiments with an IBM 7094 mainframe computer. One of the researchers had coaxed the computer to sing the 1892 marriage proposal—the first song ever sung by a computer.

O computador original que cantava "Daisy Belle" foi feito por Bell Labs no 1961

Clarke veria a demonstração mais tarde porque estava bons amigos de John Pierce, da Bell Labs, com quem ele estava trabalhando na tecnologia de satélite nascente com

Das: While Clarke came up with the idea of the communications satellite, it was John Pierce of Bell Labs who was instrumental in developing the first communications satellites, Echo I and Telstar, in the 1950s. Clarke had interacted with Pierce during that period. I asked him about his collaboration with John Pierce when the first communications satellite was built.

Clarke: We were good friends; we wrote a number of papers of together.

De acordo com a Steven Levyem Hackers, foi 1957 ...

Well before they had a chance to recover . . . the Altair started to play again. No one (except Dompier) was prepared for this reprise, a rendition of Daisy, which some of them knew was the first song ever played on a computer, in Bell Labs in 1957; that momentous event in computer history was being matched right before their ears. It was an encore so unexpected that it seemed to come from the machine’s genetic connection to its Hulking Giant ancestors (a notion apparently implicit in Kubrick’s 2001 when the HAL computer, being dismantled, regressed to a childlike ren- dition of that very song).