Three Days of the Condor

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Dec 16 00:48:30 2003

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, John Allain wrote:

> > You mean Hal-9000 is not a real computer?
>
> Yeah and those tablet computers (Chess player, Status
> monitor, etc) in '2001' are almost exactly what we have
> now today as the next-new thing, basically just rotate
> the 2003 version 90 degrees and Kubrick was right
> ~35 years early.

We had the knowledge and the drive to make his vision a reality but we
decided to put our efforts into other things (i.e. war).

Gee, times have not changed one bit since then.

<sigh>

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