2001 A Space Odyssey


The following is about Stanley Kubrick´s movie "2001 A Space Odyssey". As there exist so many great websites which deal with this film, I will only give a short impression.
	1968 was a very special year. So many ideas about new ways of living together, dealing with authorities, meaning of life. Designers thinking about how we would be living in the future and so on, and ...
...there was this movie, which asks infinite questions about the future of mankind, the role of technology, the concept of evolution and so much more. I am afraid, that I still don´t understand all the aspects of it.
	"Whether HAL could think was a question which had been settled by the British mathematician Alan Turing back in the 1940s. Turing had pointed out that, if one could carry a conversation with a machine...without being able to distinguish between its replies and those that a man might give, then the machine was thinking, by any sensible definition of the word. HAL could pass the Turing test with ease." (Artur C.Clarke)
"Too bad about Frank, isn´t it? "Yes," Bowman answered, after a long pause. "It is." "I suppose you´re pretty broken about it?" "What do you expect?" HAL processed this answer for ages of computer-time;it was a full five seconds before he continued: "He was an excellent crew member." (Arthur C.Clarke)
	(Cutlery cannot be seen so well, it was designed by Arne Jacobsen in the 50s)
"I don´t want to insist on it, Dave, but I am incapable of making an error." There is no safe answer to that; Bowman gave up the argument. "All right, HAL," he said, rather hastily. "I understand your point of view. We´ll leave it at that." He felt like adding "and please forget the whole matter." But that, of course, was the one thing that HAL could never do. (Arthur C. Clarke)

here a link to a trailer of 2001 by Warner Bros. »»»	Background voice seems to work only with MSIE, not with Netscape