Hilton Hotels are still around, representing Odyssey’s only accurate business survival prediction.īut Odyssey did have some wonderfully accurate technical forecasts. Only a single restaurant operates today in Lake George, NY. Howard Johnson restaurants, with its trademarked claim of “28 flavors” of ice cream, used to dot the United States. The space station boasted a Howard Johnson restaurant and a Hilton Hotel. Pan Am was indeed the largest international air carrier in the United States- until its demise in 1991. In Odyssey, Pan American Airlines, Pan Am for short, hosted flights from the earth to the orbiting space station. Two of the millennials who had come with a larger group jokingly threatened to leave early during the intermission and take an Uber home.īut what of the accuracy of predictions made by Odyssey in 1968 about 2001? For business survival, they are not good. Compared to today’s wham!-bam! science fiction and fantasy, Odyssey moves with glacially slowness, even coming to a complete stop for an intermission. My wife and a handful of millennials hated Odyssey.
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Remember your awe when you first saw the spaceship get longer and longer and longer in the beginning scene of 1977’s first Star Wars movie? Odyssey did it first.ĭespite that, the movie theater was almost empty. The portrayal of the physics of artificially induced gravity and the soundlessness of empty space is outstanding. It is famous for its scientifically accurate depiction of spaceflight. The Stanley Kubrick-directed film was ranked as the best science fiction movie all time by movie critics in 2014. The movie ends with an image of an embryonic baby in a clear bubble floating in space. One astronaut makes it to Jupiter, sees another monolith, and experiences the next stage in evolution. An expedition is sent to Jupiter and is almost sabotaged midway en route by the rogue onboard computer, HAL 9000. When human technology advances enough to enable a trip to the moon to uncover the buried monolith, a strong electromagnetic signal is beamed towards Jupiter. Humans must develop space travel in order to discover it. The aliens, long gone, have meanwhile buried another monolith on the moon. This allows the apes to become humans and to develop technology. A black slab monolith left on Earth by aliens teaches ape-like creatures to use tools. The plot turns on the silly idea of directed panspermia. Clarke, concurrently with the production of the film. The novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was written by the gay British atheist Sir Arthur C. For space exploration, the growth of accomplishment leveled off in 1969, a year after Odyssey, when man first set foot on the moon. Today we are on an exponential curve in the development and application of AI.Įxponential improvement of any technology is never sustainable.
Odyssey, released in 1968, was made during a period of exponential advances in space exploration technology. We still don’t have orbiting space stations that serve as launch pads for settlements on the moon. But overall, the space exploration forecast was inaccurate. As is often the case with good science fiction, future technology is accurately portrayed. I went to a 50th anniversary showing of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey at an IMAX theater. But we can look back at forecasts from the past whose “future” is today. Share Facebook Twitter Print arroba Emailĭo you ever wonder about the accuracy of today’s forecasts about the future of technology? We won’t know for certain until the future gets here.
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