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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 53
Figure: Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968. Astronauts confront multiple
screen displays.
Perhaps anticipating a typical sci-fi movie visual theme more abundant forty years later,
the scene depicts another set of multiple displays of information. It is not clear that any
of them have been magnified so that data can actually be read from the viewing
distance. The colors seem arbitrary, more for decorative purposes. However, the overall
impression was perhaps effective for audiences at the time, that is, to see something
other than the rocketship control panels of previous decades of sci-fi films.
(Acknowledgement: TBD.)
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