Computer in 2001 space odyssey12/26/2023 ![]() But in those days, very few people could type, and there probably didn’t seem to be any reason to think that would change. Of course, there were keyboards for computers back in the 1960s. There also aren’t any keyboards to be seen (and in the high-tech spacecraft full of computers going to Jupiter, the astronauts are writing with pens on clipboards presciently, no slide rules and no tape are shown-though there is one moment when a printout that looks awfully like a punched card is produced). (Both had actually been invented a few years before the movie was made, but neither was widely known.) And, yes, in the movie there weren’t any touchscreens-or mice. ![]() To be fair, cockpits today still have plenty of buttons-but the centerpiece is now a display. But otherwise, it’s lots and lots of mechanical buttons. But just when I was getting concerned, there was a bone thrown in the air that morphed into a spacecraft, and pretty soon there was a rousing waltz-and a big space station turning majestically on the screen.Īnother difference is in how the computers are controlled. I was confused, and frankly a little bored. But then what was going on? Those weren’t space scenes. It started with an impressive extraterrestrial sunrise. And to this day, I remember sitting in a plush seat and eagerly waiting for the curtain to go up, and the movie to begin. I’d been dropped off for a matinee, and was pretty much the only person in the theater. ![]() So in the early summer of 1968 there I was, the first time I’d ever been in an actual cinema (yes, it was called that in the UK). Then on Ap(May 15 in the UK), the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released-and I was keen to see it. And I was eagerly studying everything I could to do with space. For the first time, a space probe had recently landed on another planet (Venus). ![]()
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