2001: A Space Odyssey -- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

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1. At 19:09 HAL tells Dave to "calm down and take a stress pill." Very 1960's to treat stress with pills. Today we have "brain tech" like Thync that can calm you down using electromagnetism or DC stimulation, which is much more inline with the modern age of computers and technology.
2. Nobody realized that space travel was simply a ploy to develop rocket and satellite technology to compete with the russians.
3. It's sad. The reason the reason why we (USA) havn't done much in space since beating the Russians to the moon, is because America isn't really interested in exploration. We're a military power, and as such, we don't really feel the need to explore. That's for smaller, lesser nations to do.
4. first A.I, first Android..
5. Hal's eye is lifted directly from Godard's Alphaville.
6. I'm glad someone was honest enough to say science fiction has a terrible record of predicting the future. Because the current apocalypse du jour will look pretty silly in humanities rear view mirror. That isn't to say there aren't problems in the world (over-population is a real problem), it's just that humanity has always had problems and always will. Your species needs to accept that reality.
7. When was this documentary made?
8. The film predicted future perfectly, things just went inward instead of outward
9. The film predicted future perfectly, things just went inward instead of outward
10. The ultimate anti-egalitarian film- from sub-human to human to ultra human
11. It's great that they got the people who worked on films with Kubrick to talk in this documentary instead of big name directors like Spielberg or Lucas.
12. science movie
13. The reason for not building any station that rotates is that in order to produce enough rotation to even approximate Earth gravity, it would have to be huge, or it would have to spin so fast, it's likely to make the astronauts sick from the spin.
    
    Also, the only point of being in orbit for a human being is microgravity experiments, and even they are not too useful.
    
    Also, working on the exterior of a rotating station would be extremely dangerous.
14. AAAHHH!!THANKS FOR THE COMMENT.FRGLEE:FROM(U.K.).
15. AAAAHHH!! SO! YOU SAY!HMMMMM!!!!IT ALL HAPPENED IN THE 1970'S!!!!!!!!FROM(U.K.)
16. What's the music at 14:33?
17. The truth is that technological development has not met the expectations of the 1960s. It has in many ways slowed down considerably. I think the 21 century will be mostly eaten up by serious social and political problems.
18. Re: HAL and the threat that is not AI. Intelligence is a quality, not a quantity. Intelligence is a product of synergy: known quantities that interact to produce something of unknown quality. Simply adding up the RAMspace and the function chips and the CPU speeds does not produce intelligence. We can simulate it very well, yes, and anyone who plays online games with good, fast computers specifically tailored for that purpose will agree. But it ain't "intelligence." There's something called the Turing Test, named after Alan Turing, who cracked the Enigma code. Supposedly, it can determine some aspects of intelligent behavior but even that is rather suspect.
    
    But what if the quality of intelligence we think we'll find in AI--human, in other words--when it's developed is NOT the kind we expect to find? What if it's not...human?
    
    We expect that it SHOULD be, correct? After all, we try to model machines after us, to do the things we do and think as we do. But machines don't think like we do, not really. At the most basic level, a machine can only count very fast. That's it! That's all. "One-two." "On-off." "Black-white." Discrimination has to be programmed in, whereas with humans, our discrimination is factory-installed and multi-valued; many things at once, and only a few of them two-valued. We see experience as a spectrum, naturally and necessarily. Computers and computer tech most certainly does NOT see it that way without very special programming and even then, it's not always reliable. The operating envelope changes, like walking over rough terrain. Sure, we have those kinds of robots now, but can they sing marching songs while exchanging nutrition bars and wisecracks with their hiking partners? Sure, but the damn thing would be the size of a Mack truck. Not human at all, no.
    
    Do we REALLY want AI? Then we'll get it, but it ain't gonna be silicon. It will be meat, the stuff between your ears. Cyborgs, my dears and yes, I think we all know that it's quite possible to reprogram human minds almost as easily as one made of silicon. There may even be some folks who WANT an existence like that, although I can't imagine why. Things like emotions get in the way of carrying out programs, as HAL so richly demonstrates. Solution: remove those areas of the human brain and program as necessary. So the end result would still be the same, wouldn't it?
    
    Not human at all.
19. ALTHOUGH THE LATE ARTHUR .C. CLARKE WAS A VERY TALENTED SICENCE-FICTION WRITER.
    
    HE WAS IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE A PEDAEDOPHILLE!!!!!!!!!!
    I WAS QUIET HORRIFIED AT THE TIME.
    
    ITS WAS THEN MENTIONED THAT HE FELT "SEX WITH CHILDREN SHOULD BE ALLOWED BY ADULTS" !!  PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES IN 1970'S!!!!!!!
    YE- GOD'S!!! -PLEASE!!
    
    HE TOOK OFF TO SRI LANKA AND DIED OF AIDS !!!!!!
    HMMMM!!! ONE WONDER'S???
    
    ANYWAY, THE MOVIE WAS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC/SUPERBLY/GREAT STUFF!!
    
    LOVED THE MOVIE!!!
    
    THANKS FOR THE POSTING.
    
    FROM(U.K.).
20. Hojo's in Space... now that is futuristic thinking.