Then again, as I recall, you could be pretty temperamental yourself. So far, I don't think any of the computers in the newsroom have actually killed anyone. For a country just a year away from the first manned lunar landing, it excited the futurist in just about everyone. Kubrick, who adapted the novel by Arthur C. Clarke, envisioned a world in 2001 in which people travel in sleek space cruisers to the moon on a regularly scheduled basis. Astronauts phone home using videophones.
Nuclear weapons orbit the Earth.
A vast lunar base is home to more than 1,000 residents. More than simply what they got right and wrong, you must consider how much they over-predicted or underestimated. Looking at it that way, fewer than half the predictions have come true. The Cold War still rages in the film. One way is to take specific examples of science that Kubrick and Clarke extrapolated into the future.