I'm sorry Dave, I don't have time to read the whole book (but this article is good)
I'm sorry Dave, I don't have time to read the whole book (but this article is good)
The Amazingly Accurate Futurism of 2001: A Space Odyssey
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/amazingly-accurate-futurism-2001-space-odyssey/
Snippets:
...Clarke wrote the most of the screenplay at the Chelsea Hotel, in the company of William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
...Eliot Noyes, IBM’s industrial design consultant, based his renderings on current technological achievements, which were room-sized supercomputers used only by professionals and the military. He proposed to Kubrick that “a computer of the complexity required by the Discoveryspacecraft would be a computer into which men went, rather than a computer around which men walked.” Kubrick lost it. He wanted something smaller, like a control panel. “IBM’s assumptions were behind the times,”
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/amazingly-accurate-futurism-2001-space-odyssey/?mbid=social_gplus
The Amazingly Accurate Futurism of 2001: A Space Odyssey
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/amazingly-accurate-futurism-2001-space-odyssey/
Snippets:
...Clarke wrote the most of the screenplay at the Chelsea Hotel, in the company of William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
...Eliot Noyes, IBM’s industrial design consultant, based his renderings on current technological achievements, which were room-sized supercomputers used only by professionals and the military. He proposed to Kubrick that “a computer of the complexity required by the Discoveryspacecraft would be a computer into which men went, rather than a computer around which men walked.” Kubrick lost it. He wanted something smaller, like a control panel. “IBM’s assumptions were behind the times,”
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/amazingly-accurate-futurism-2001-space-odyssey/?mbid=social_gplus
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