So there's a super AI formulating the necessary steps for quelling human unrest, with a bunch of clowns at the helm converting that clown code into clown world.
HAL's capabilities, like all the technology in 2001, were based on the speculation of respected scientists. Marvin Minsky, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
The IBM 5100 was a series of computers, starting with the IBM 5150.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=5150
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name
So there's a super AI formulating the necessary steps for quelling human unrest, with a bunch of clowns at the helm converting that clown code into clown world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with_Jeffrey_Epstein
Just having a little fun here...