As we approach the real turn of the millennium in the year 2001 (that’s right people, after all that Y2K hullabaloo, we’re still in the 20th century!), I can’t stop thinking about Stanley Kubrick’s movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel. If you have never seen it, then by all means, drop this magazine, go out and rent it now — you’re depriving yourself of seeing probably the best sci-fi film ever made. Go right now. Watch it. Make popcorn. And don’t skip the slow-moving monkey part — it’s important.
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As we approach the real turn of the millennium in the year 2001 (that’s right people, after all that Y2K hullabaloo, we’re still in the 20th century!), I can’t stop thinking about Stanley Kubrick’s movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel. If you have never seen it, then by all means, drop this magazine, go out and rent it now — you’re depriving yourself of seeing probably the best sci-fi film ever made. Go right now. Watch it. Make popcorn. And don’t skip the slow-moving monkey part — it’s important.
What a great flick, right? Granted, there are a great deal of technologies and advancements that were predicted in Kubrick’s movie (originally released in 1968, as if you couldn’t tell by the beehive hairdos) that obviously have not come to fruition yet, such as manned interplanetary space travel, a permanent moon base, true artificial intelligence, and of course, the videophone (as depicted in that famous scene where space scientist Dr. Floyd calls his young daughter on her birthday from a space station orbiting earth).
2001: An Instant Messaging Odyssey
Surprisingly, what 2001: A Space Odyssey could not predict was…
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