2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY
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2001: A Space Odyssey is visually incredible to watch, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense at parts. The novel that Arthur C. Clarke wrote concurrently is better in that regard.
on “DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster” ↗The full name of the movie is “2001: A Space Odyssey”. It’s based on a novel by the great Arthur C. Clarke.
on “RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT detection” ↗Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick I, Robot - Isaac Asimov The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
on “Ask HN: What's your favorite sci-fi book?” ↗Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey". I kind of wonder about the people who are claiming books like "1984" are inspirational.
on “Ask YC: What's the most inspiring sci-fi book you've read?” ↗Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement The Song and the Pendant by Magnus Von Black
on “What are your favorite sci-fi and fantasy books?” ↗…* Neuromancer, William Gigson Just finished * The Island of Doctor Moreau, H G Wells * Brave new world, Aldous Huxley Recommend * The Martian: A Novel, Andy Weir * Dune, Frank Herbert * 2001: A space odyssey, Arthur C Clarke
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗…Crichton - Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini - Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean - The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils by James Lovegrove - Contact by Carl Sagan - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Top 11? :-)
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book?” ↗…and fears you've mentioned: "Neuromancer" by William Gibson (1984): This cyberpunk classic envisions a future where AI is deeply ingrained in human society and plays a significant role in shaping it. "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke (1968): The novel, as well as the film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick, explores the relationship between humans and AI, particularly when AI begins to develop its own goals and intentions.…
on “Ask HN: Science Fiction books that predict where ChatGPT might lead us?” ↗The problem is, tales of the land of the happy nice people doesn't make for much of a story, or “. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.” ― Arthur C. Clarke, _2001: A Space Odyssey_
on “Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?” ↗In Arthur C Clarke’s 2001 a space odyssey, in the book, he describes a flat handheld device that is used for reading the New York Times. He can’t remember the exact details but the ergonomics he describes perfectly encapsulate the tablet devices…
on “Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)” ↗> We code our biases into the algorithms we use every day. They inherit our flaws. The sooner we all wake up to this, the better. And our values. And assumptions. In Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey" the homicidal behavior of HAL was ultimately based on the conflict between his secret instructions and what he was able to share with the human crew, Bowman and Poole.
on “The Moral Economy of Tech” ↗…there's a line I've not heard in a very long time. Thanks for the callback. I'm fairly certain this is from Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Nine Billion Names of God", partly used as inspiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
on “Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars” ↗2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey
on “NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa” ↗You're amply correct on all points, and GP wrong. I'd point to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey for numerous aspects of technology, including talking computer interfaces, tablet computers, and voice communications. Vannevar Bush, in the 1940s, and H.G. Wells, in the 1930s, were proposing systems…
on “The end of smartphone innovation” ↗“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.” Arthur C. Clarke, 2001, a Space Odyssey (1968) Something of a prophetic sentence.
on “The Ornithologist the Internet Called a Murderer” ↗