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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 45 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick This iconic, classic film from the 1960s is 2001, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1968, an American epic science-fiction epic narrative that begins at the dawn of human beings and ends with the future of humanity, encompassing themes of human evolution, the relation ship of technologyto human civilization, and the impact of extraterrestial life on the evolution of human civilizaiton. The film is notable for its silent outer space, an emphasis on “trippy” visual effects, its memorable theme music, and the computer HAL. The film features many scenes of HCI displays, many of them conventional enhancements to existing technologies. Notable among its anachronistic scenes is the use of video “payphones” meeting room conference tables without computers or mobile phones. The film does have one of the first comic scenes of a HCI, in which an intrepid astronaut contemplates the displayed instructions for using a toilet, which are themselves so long and complex, that it is doubtful the user has time to actually use the toilet. One of the innovative and memorable moments of the film is the presentation of a lip-reading computer system that eavesdropson a private conversation between to astronauts fearful of the computer system. Figures: Scenes from 2001, A Space Odyssey, 1968 45
Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 46 Figure: Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968. The Computer System Overhears two Astronauts. The scene depicts the spaceshipʼs master control system HAL listening in on a private conversation using its lip-reading capability, an expertise unknown to the two astronauts, one of whom HAL kills within a short time, thereby violating one of sciencefictionsʼs conventions of basic rules for intelligent systems/robots that forbids anthrocide. The use of lip-reading and other human-like capabilities was startling for film-goers at the time. (Acknowledgement: TBD.) 46
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