2001: A Space Odyssey Turns 50 ! Flat Screen & Tablet Computer Technology In Film 50 Years Ago!

I should take my philips tv into another dimension and sell it for allot of money while installing it on a star...

Connect this with Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and you will understand God.

And did I left out Artificle Intellectual?, a bit like modern pinocchio in spacesuit who wanted to become a real boy with a soul.

AI was completed by Spielberg after Kubrick departed in England on March 7, 1999, and was born in New York.

You have written these books, and it is very okay to say that you have. It is not necessary for you, or anyone else, to hide your light under a bushel. I have made that point before. Unless you learn to acknowledge Who You Are and what you have done, you can never acknowledge others for Who They Are and what they have done.

It is true that you have been inspired by Me to put these principles into print. It is true that I have given you the words to write. Does that make it any less your achievement? If it does, then you should not honor Thomas Jefferson for writing the Declaration of Independence, Albert Einstein for articulating the theory of relativity, Madam Curie, Mozart, Rembrandt, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, or anyone else who has done anything of note in the history of the human race—because I inspired them all.

My son, I cannot tell you how many people to whom I have given wonderful words to write, who have never written them. I cannot tell you how many people to whom I have given wonderful songs to sing, who have never sung them. Do you want the list of people to whom I have given gifts, who have never used them?.

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Ancient Technology rebooted.

Stanley Kubrick = )))).ew.sh. GENIUS !

Essentially the "monolith" is a tablet turned sideways.

One famous film critic on youtube did a whole video on this. He's absolutely correct.

obviously it was a groundbreaking movie, and brilliant in terms of cinematogaphy

my biggest problem with the script, however, is that they do not fully explain why HAL went haywire and tried to kill off the crew

that was a central part of the theme and it should have been made more clear to the audience

unless, of course, it was an illuminati symbol that TPTB are trying to kill all of us off with technology, and ensure that we never actually meet any aliens or that we never have the truth reveled to us about how the universe was created

He was afraid of death!

He wanted immortality.

it didn't go haywire, it prioritized the mission completion and thought the humans might endanger it ...

actually a central problem in the AI speculations ... Asimov put forward his "three rules of robotics" as a solution

Moon has gravity ... haven't you seen the Apollo astronauts jumping on the Moon surface .... they always fall back down, although more slowly than on the Earth, because the the gravity is just a fraction compared to Earth G.

Maybe Kubrick left a hint in the movie, telling why space travel is impossible ...

HAL the computer
van HALen belt ....

I wonder why smarter, brighter intelligences
doesn't want psychos escaping this lunatic asylum...?

Such a mystery...

This film had flat screen technology 84 years ago. It's in the last 15 minutes or so.

Van Halen Bands, please!

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He 'died' days after Eyes Wide Shut was previewed by the movie execs. He had already pared it down - lots - at their request.

Look where we are ...

It was released in 2006. It was titled "Idiocracy."

star trek was on tv several years before 2001.

Kurt had some nice flat screens.


someone is trying to rewrite history.

Yeah it's good! Our Geography teacher used to play it to us every time the class was under numbers to teach? Anyway we got the extended vid but as i recall in the many times we watched it we never got past the Monolith

I look back now and realise his interest but now think this dude prob even isn't alive now as he was bald with side white hair then (1982) ...?
If not then he prob found the answer to the question

or someone tries intentionally to forget the Scripture ...

"YHWH" gave Moses a Tablet and a spare one to boot.

I no longer judge my life by the number of years I've lived but by how how modern the times of the past are becoming as I look back over the last 100 years.

the cocaine is a joke reference to Sherlock Holmes, who was a coke fiend ... he used coke IV, and one old Holmes movie ends after Holmes had solved the case, he is shown walking upstairs in his apartment and he says: "Dear Watson, bring my needle". THE END.

The Victorians were big coke heads, "Jekyll and mr Hyde" is a parable or allegory of coke use, and Freud came up with his theories of "drives" inspired by his coke use etc

Kubrick had all that gov cooperation because he was filming the fake moon landing too, not just 2001.

I am pretty sure Arthur C Clarke walked out of the premiere saying "what the fuck?"

Mostly a Nothingburger here though.

Herman Hollerith essentially formed IBM (renamed later) in the early 1900's with punch card technology... IBM was established decades prior to the movie....

Arthur Clarke was just clever with the play of letters (of a longstanding company of influence.) He knew of IBM and knew they would continue to be relevant...

I remember reading in a Martin Gardner book how he asked Clarke about this, is it a cipher for IBM, and Clarke denied and said it never occurred to him.

Clarke addressed the issue in his book The Lost Worlds of 2001:

...about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

HAL =IBM is probably as stuck in peoples heads as the impenetrable van Halen Belts

Derp, Tardy McTard.

Flat screens were in 'the jetsons', not sure where else they may have sgown up. Twilight Zone, star trek etc. maybe.

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