FYI: Deadline.com pronounced “Morgan” D.O.A. IndieWire’s Kate Erbland gives it a D. “Little Love For ‘Morgan’,” said one headline. “Derivative sci-fi movie” said another. How well can IBM accurately predict the future? How about this quote from 1943: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” What idiot said that? Thomas Watson, president of IBM.

PS: Re-read Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” The lesson: In a world where books are burned, people become books. So it is with all art. Computers are trinkets. Tools. Tire-irons. They process stuff—the artistic equivalent of processing cheese. People are treasures … messy though they may be. We’ll never have computers produce a Picasso. Dali. Chuck Close or van Gogh. John, Paul, George, Ringo? Nope. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John? Nyet. “Citizen Kane.” Never. “Casablanca.” “All the President’s Men.” No way.

“Spam-A-Lot”?

Mebbe …