Creation machines: Stanley Kubrick's view of computers in 2001

  • Authors:

  • Mark Midbon

  • Affiliations:

  • UW Admin. Data Processing, 1210 W. Dayton St., Rm. 3228, Madison, WI

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

A retrospective look at the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey shows that Stanley Kubrick paid a great deal of attention to computer developments of the late 1960s. In particular, the recurring image of the monolith turns out to represent a monolithic integrated circuit. The movie shows that computers and other tools have an important role in creating the human race. And the film teaches a set of ethics for using the computer.