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Yes and be didn't just predict space travel and display tech but also AI.
by wkat4242 2y ago
Yes and be didn't just predict space travel and display tech but also AI.
- WalterBright 2y agoArthur C Clarke collaborated closely with Kubrick on developing the story.
- wkat4242 2y agoOh yeah true I forgot it was just based on a book.
- WalterBright 2y agoThe book and movie were done at the same time. Clarke wrote multiple versions of it - see "The Lost Worlds of 2001". The concept is from a short story "The Sentinel" by Clarke.
- Aardwolf 2y agoI don't know what the modules Bowman is unplugging in the HAL computer represented in the film back then, but today they can easily be seen as each being a CPU board, GPU or SSD. Maybe in the 60s they represented circuits with a few transistors, magnetic cores or tapes. It's interesting that the art style was made universal enough to work for computing technology of any era