2001: A Space Odyssey | Vision of a Future Passed:The Prophecy of 2001 | Warner Bros. Entertainment 

Exactly. Flat screen plasma displays. They had to use film projectors to achieve that effect in the fuuristic space craft. The 1984 sequel "2010: The Year We Made Contact" recreated the interior of the 'Discovery' space craft but they used colour TV screens which had those inherent curved screens (being cathode tube based tech) of that era which ironically made the 1980s movie more 'dated' than the 1960s original. It just goes to show the genius of Kubrick and his masterpiece.

Everyone has missed one major flaw when Bowman goes to the hatch to shut down HAL. One can very clearly see that his left glove is NOT attached to his suit when he opens and goes through the hatch. You can see his bare wrist. I'm puzzled that Kubrick didn't noticed it, or if he did was it too late to re-film that piece.

lawrencet83 he ran out of money and simply had to stop. Maybe as you say he just didn’t have the money to fix things like that

Yes. And each of HAL’s “transparent aluminum wafer” memory core slabs could house petabytes each, or more. Roger Ebert’s assumption about Kubrick envisioning the future of technology “incorrectly” really doesn’t hold water. Enough details were left nebulous enough, very much on purpose by Kubrick, to allow for the realized actual details of future technologies to fit in the framework of the film quite nicely.

What the movie didn't predict is that one device could serve as several things, like our modern day smartphones do. Those tablets in 2001 could only do one thing, show video. There were no apps on them. You couldn't make a phone call on them. That's what those video phone booths did. The real thing 2001 failed to predict is consolidation of technology.

@@jefferee2002 "The real thing 2001 failed to predict is consolidation of technology" ? HAL runs the entire ship and is integral to almost every system (including propulsion and navigation.)... [ "Alexa, Alexa ... order more coffee please " ]. The "princely denizens" of the Discovery space craft where almost every need is met... where even a bed is commanded to reposition for greater comfort. + integration of commercial entities / logos and related systems. The original design of the space helmets has the idea of memory modules on the outside where different programs and different mission schemes could be loaded / uploaded you know like an 'App" .

This documentary is using the same trope soundtrack as all sci-fi films of the past decade, so at least it has that going for it.

You got that right.

What is a Blackberry?? :D :D :D

On the other hand, maybe your computer COULD have been sentient by 2019 but people like Elon Musk are terrified of it. Perhaps rightly so.

PointyTailofSatan I agree. Look at the scene while they are eating: I-Pads! I especially agree with the glass cockpits. They had multiple pages to do with navigation, etc, just as you would see in an Airbus A380.

i think Arthur C Clarke provided the science - with Kubrick adding the magical touches - much of the "advanced" tech seen in the movie was being worked on back then - Clarke tended to avoid making things up - and he was in a position to learn what was going on at the fringes of technology

Totally on these Hollywood guys trying to predict 2009 and 2019... What a laugh! "When will these computers become sentient!" They saw Terminator one too many times LOL

Douglas Trumbull was the technical genius. He's the reason why the film still looks as incredible today as back in the 60s. They didn't have clear shots of Jupiter until the 70s and he managed to achieve a close look with practical effects.

@@cody8860 Trumbull did the effects, and Kubrick got the Oscar for them.

-Couldn't agree more. The guy at 2'30" already gives you this feeling.

Yep. .

Very well put.

haha. Less 2001, more 1984

@@seandonoghue2347 Less HAL, more Neuromancer and cyberspace.

We can still make the future brighter. We just can't fall into despair!

it wouldn't matter how fast in spun in space because they say there is no gravitational pull in space. Same reason they say that the space shuttle can leave the earth while its spinning at 1000mph....because the higher you go the less gravity has any effect. So if you put your arm out the window in space at 1000mph nothing would happen....your arm wouldn't move since there is no resistance.... it suppose to be a vacuum unlike here on earth where your arm would get yanked back from resistance.

+Show me the evidence What the heck is you talking about???

@@showmetheevidence8755 You are discounting friction.

@@GeorgeMonet Friction from what? What do you think causes friction?

But it was that very adversarial nature which led to the downfall of the USSR. The resource expenditure was simply too much for either side to maintain. Oftentimes adversary just leads to the destruction of both participants if there isn't a timely winner. Just look at animals competing for a mate. Sometimes the fights lead to the death of both.

@@GeorgeMonet 🍷 Interesting point.

That’s a great point, and there is a lot of truth to that.😮

We have had photos of the Earth since 1947.

@@catherinelw9365 Since 1872.

@jabba da hutt The big Pan-Am logo on the side of the Orion spaceplane was a bit of a giveaway though.

BLAZENYCBLACKOPS Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke and others did allot of research for the movie. Especially Kubrick is known for his absurd amount of research and eye for detail look up the documentary "Stanley Kubricks Boxes". There were also two advisers from NASA that would help insure that the movie had a base of reality. You can find a short interview here at 2.20.

That would be setting up the Mars mission for total failure. If you put a requirement of building something useless for no reason other than to see if we can then you are setting it up to never happen.

Yeah but he correctly predicted that the reanimated dead would need to eat brains to take away the pain of being dead.

... and suddenly those hands look like claws ...

It's happening now - 2023

Yeah nobody ever listens. We practically deserve it at this point. Let’s just hope the asteroid hits before anything else, that’s probably the most dignified exit we’ll get.

That makes sense.. 🍷

Government employee pensions are costing us trillions every year. They retire at 40 and can live another 40 or 50 years. We are paying them millions not to work. The rest of us in the private sector have to save for our retirements. So a lot of money is being spent, that could be spent on space exploration.

Actually, HAL did as well, but we know him as "Watson" built by IBM.

+arrotoxietak Au Contrare... it is not technology that has stagnated... it is a sense of future and positive mission among us all that is missing. We work. We shop, we complain. Meanwhile, the power brokers continue to run things while we squabble.

Perhaps because the more radical aspects at the heart of the expectations in the 1960s are actually impossible. They never accounted for limitations on resources, costs, material strengths, environmental strain, population strain, energy potentials, etc. They also never asked why. Why would the majority of people working to make ends meat want this?

@@GeorgeMonet Agreeable! Yes certainly thought provoking point. After all without the why that should govern all actions, what is the point to the greatest of human endeavours? At the same time one wonders why places like schools and governments fail to push and instill higher values of space and exponential development to society at large. Our lives will truly benefit once the mind expands.

Nah. It's because there is no money in it. People don't want to pay for something with no tangible value.

I think you are discounting how costly the space race was for both participants. At some point one would have been forced to bow out which of course the Russians did. The pace and expenditure of the program could not be feasibly maintained for long.

OneofInfinity My thoughts exactly. Sadly, countries are more hell bent on waging war than combining efforts to reach for the stars. What a pity!

+kraftpr because there is 8 billion people we will never do that.

kraftpr A good motivator: colonize planets then in a couple of centuries we can wage interplanetary wars against their descendants.

Very true. If people stopped with their bs and put their heads together, the world would be a completely different place. We could get off this planet and explore space (however the secret space program is already doing that)

But we HAVE PUT OUR DIFFERENCES ASIDE AND WORKED TOGETHER. That's literally what's been happening for the past 40 years. The very reason why industry is so globalized is precisely because the world is at peace and cooperating. The reason why space travel stopped is because there was no value in it.

+Marc Parella HoJo had a down year in 1992, the same year HAL was born in Urbana, Illinois. Coincidence? I think not. HoJo's R/HR/RBI line in 1991 read 108/38/117. Next thing that happens, HAL is born. After that, HoJo completely fell apart with the Mets, hitting a measly 7 HR, and from that point suffered one of the worst drop-offs in performance in baseball history, his next 3 years consisting of Mendoza Line mediocrity with negligible punch before his retirement. What I like to think is that Kubrick predicted this and, in honor of Howard Johnson and sad to see how HAL's birth somehow poisoned HoJo's career, placed the Christian name of the once-dominant NY Met on Space Station 5 (albeit in the form of a hotel chain). Taking this logic to its natural conclusion would require us as a species to identify and protect any HoJo-like heros from being somehow compromised by the various Skynets we're bound to confront in the not-too-distant future. There must be something about the HoJo prototype that all AI either needs (like Dracula needs blood) or despises and seeks to destroy. HAL vs. HoJo. Epic rap battle of history.

@J Webster Smith II Maxwell, Tesla and Dollard???

Cue theme music from "Twilight Zone".

I have a bridge I'd like to sell you Webster.

Are you serious? Never.

Probably a Commodore Vic 20.

Pretty much. Nixon cancelled the future, so we could concentrate on killing yellow people.

The US (and others, such as the European Space Agency) has done PLENTY in space since the moon landings. Indeed, I would say that the greatest era of solar system exploration is RIGHT NOW. Obviously, MANNED space flight has been stuck in low earth orbit for 40 odd years - but that looks like it is going to be ending very soon. I'm optimistic. The future for both manned and unmanned space EXPLORATION, is looking very bright. In addition, the past 50 years has seen the exploitation of space as a resource to aid commerce and humanity as a whole has expanded exponentially. We are making use of space in ways we possibly could not have imagined 50 years ago.

@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 killing yellow people??? Haha you wouldn't have that attitude if you were in a cage with "yellow" people shooting you with BBs for fun.... Idiot. You probably hate Trump, trump does more for space in one day than you have done in your whole lifetime.

What about the electrons in your brain? Assuming you have one.

@@jcf20010 I am guessing what CF stands for.

That's not the point he was making. The point is: Today they do not rotate space stations to create "gravity" like in the movie. I wonder - just like he does - why they don't ...

@@Berniewahlbrinck - i didn't touch on the point made by Ebert & Turnbull - about need for artificial gravity to avoid the detrimental health effects of weightlessness - and just for psychological comfort - i was making a point of physics - that all the space stations up to now - have been in orbit - they are not gravity free - too often laymen don't know the difference the scene which is being shown while those two are talking is of the astronaut talking about in rotating housing of a ship HEADING TO JUPITER was not in orbit - that spacecraft WAS away from the tug of gravity - just feeling minor tugs from various directions

How about SSRIS, Klonopin and all the the other stuff.

It came out in October of 2007. www.imdb.com/title/tt1147658/