It is set in a subterranean earth, where the whole of the earths population is living inside “the machine”. The story follows the dialogue between a mother and a son, where their means of communication seems to be via something similar to Face time, or Skype. The humankind lives isolated in confined spaces, where every basic desire is taken care of by the machine. The society is no longer interested in what is outside their own rooms, especially not on the surface of the earth, but the son Kuno has begun dreaming about what it is like out there? Beyond the borders of the machine:
“The truth is … that I want to see these stars again. They are curious stars. I want to see them not from the air-ship, but from the surface of the earth, as our ancestors did, thousands of years ago.”
This is a visionary story where Forster has predicted technologies that we are using in our everyday life today such as the constant use of Internet, Instant messaging, face chatting and having robots in your house. The author reflects a worry for the future of humankind, especially regarding our dependence upon technology.
]]>It is set in a subterranean earth, where the whole of the earths population is living inside “the machine”. The story follows the dialogue between a mother and a son, where their means of communication seems to be via something similar to Face time, or Skype. The humankind lives isolated in confined spaces, where every basic desire is taken care of by the machine. The society is no longer interested in what is outside their own rooms, especially not on the surface of the earth, but the son Kuno has begun dreaming about what it is like out there? Beyond the borders of the machine:
“The truth is … that I want to see these stars again. They are curious stars. I want to see them not from the air-ship, but from the surface of the earth, as our ancestors did, thousands of years ago.”
This is a visionary story where Forster has predicted technologies that we are using in our everyday life today such as the constant use of Internet, Instant messaging, face chatting and having robots in your house. The author reflects a worry for the future of humankind, especially regarding our dependence upon technology.
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2001: A Space Odyssey is a novel consisting of six parts. Chronologically, the reader first encounters the ancient history of the human kind (about 3 million years ago), to then be placed in the modern times (ca year 2001, as imagined in 1968). The part of the book set in the modern times begins with the discovery of a jet-black monolith on the dark side of the Moon, continues with a space mission to one of Saturn's moons, Iapetus, to investigate its connection to the monolith on the Moon, and ends with the next step in the evolution of man. The common thread in the two time periods is the alien influence on human evolution via the so-called monoliths.
Machine vision is most prominent in the form of HAL 9000, an artificial intelligence that has "eyes" (cameras) all over the ship, and that is as perfectly capable of operating all of the ship's systems as he is of being a credibly human-like companion for the mission's crew (when it comes to intelligence and conversational skills). However, due to a programming conflict, HAL 9000 ends up killing 4 members of the crew before Bowman, the only remaining crew member, manages to switch his higher cognitive functions off.
(Film description by Milad)
Mankind's evolution is portrayed and accelerated by the appearance of a series of catalystic monoliths that first appears with mankind as apes and finally culminates with the trancendence of the human race. A radically inventive movie that seeks to draw a line between mankind's past, present and future, in search of questions about the developement of man beyond the present age.
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(Novel description by Tijana)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a novel consisting of six parts. Chronologically, the reader first encounters the ancient history of the human kind (about 3 million years ago), to then be placed in the modern times (ca year 2001, as imagined in 1968). The part of the book set in the modern times begins with the discovery of a jet-black monolith on the dark side of the Moon, continues with a space mission to one of Saturn's moons, Iapetus, to investigate its connection to the monolith on the Moon, and ends with the next step in the evolution of man. The common thread in the two time periods is the alien influence on human evolution via the so-called monoliths.
Machine vision is most prominent in the form of HAL 9000, an artificial intelligence that has "eyes" (cameras) all over the ship, and that is as perfectly capable of operating all of the ship's systems as he is of being a credibly human-like companion for the mission's crew (when it comes to intelligence and conversational skills). However, due to a programming conflict, HAL 9000 ends up killing 4 members of the crew before Bowman, the only remaining crew member, manages to switch his higher cognitive functions off.
(Film description by Milad)
Mankind's evolution is portrayed and accelerated by the appearance of a series of catalystic monoliths that first appears with mankind as apes and finally culminates with the trancendence of the human race. A radically inventive movie that seeks to draw a line between mankind's past, present and future, in search of questions about the developement of man beyond the present age.
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