On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, John Allain wrote:
You mean
Hal-9000 is not a real computer?
Yeah and those tablet computers (Chess player, Status
monitor, etc) in '2001' are almost exactly what we have
now today as the next-new thing, basically just rotate
the 2003 version 90 degrees and Kubrick was right
~35 years early.
We had the knowledge and the drive to make his vision a reality but we
decided to put our efforts into other things (i.e. war).
Gee, times have not changed one bit since then.
<sigh>
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