124. 2001: Amazing technology we have not yet reached, but no internet, mobile devices or Google glasses
Last
night I rewatched ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, the great Stanley Kubrick movie.
Have you seen it? If you have not, you definitely should. It is a movie from a
time when movies were different and did not all follow the same rhythm and
formula. That can make it a bit hard going, but it is incredibly beautiful and
interesting. It plays with many concepts which would warrant their own
Twitteretters. Alien gifted human intelligence, rogue AI, space and hyperspace
travelling. The last 15 minutes are mind bending, light speed travelling, time
travelling, uncertainty principle… What I also find very interesting is seeing
the technologies they expected to have by 2001, and the ones they completely
missed. The most noticeable of these are internet and mobile devices. Humanity
can colonize the moon and travel to Jupiter with a conscious AI on board, but
video calling happens from an over teched phone booth paid for with a phone
card. I wonder what future technologies will completely blindside us
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