On Mar 19, 2:55*pm, "Jim Relsh" wrote:
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See:

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/0...-arthur-c.html

I weep for he was one of the great SF writers, and '2001: A Space Odyssey'
is still one of my favorite movies. I'm glad he got to see 2001 IRL and be
able to compare it to his own 60's vision. In some regards we are light
years behind the capabillities they had in the movie (SSTO, intelligent
computers), in others we are way ahead (minitaturized computers, integrated
circuitry, graphical operating systems, electronics). It's also very funny
to see how many 60's traits were in the movie, such as the centrallized
computing idiom, the Soviets and mini-skirts.

You forgot Pan-Am. And 2001 will be remembered more for the terrorist
attack than anything technological or space-related.