Just how accurate were Arthur C. Clarke's predictions of the future?
was how artificial intelligence emerged by the 21st century and became an important part of scientific research and space exploration. This was personified with the HAL 9000 , the AI responsible for running the spaceshipThe character and the ultimate fate of HAL have left an indelible stamp on popular culture.
Clarke and Kubrick also envisioned the HAL 9000 being similar in profile to computers of their day, which occupied entire rooms and had wall-sized memory cores. In reality, computers would get continuously smaller between the 1960s and 1980s, at which point integrated circuits became the mainstay and would lead to the development of the personal computer .
and his many works of fiction, Clarke predicted that the 21st century would see human astronauts flying to destinations beyond the Earth-Moon system. In the film, the third act takes place aboard an interplanetary spacecraft known as, which carries two pilots, a crew of specialists, and is administered by the aforementioned HAL 9000.
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