The HAL Result, or How One Company Killed Innovation

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Recently Autodesk announced their new release of AutoCAD, version 2010. Many of you will immediately relate 2010 to a movie of the same name, and naturally your mind will touch on the prequel to 2010, the movie entitled 2001: A Space Odyssey. One cannot think of 2001 without remembering HAL, the semi transient computer running the show on the space …