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A look into the future as predicted by A. Clarke and S. Kubrick

The famous novel 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and the eponymous film produced by Stanley Kubrick were released in 1968 (the novel was published a few months after the film’s release; Clarke and Kubrick worked together on the screenplay). The collaboration of these two great artists proved to be extremely fruitful. It gave the world a work of art that had a colossal impact on several generations of not only viewers but also thinkers and researchers.

The first installment was followed by sequels — 2010: Odyssey Two (novel, 1982) and 2010: The Year We Make Contact (film adaptation, 1984; directed and produced by Peter Hyams).

Both novels and films complement each other perfectly, and when we speak of the Space Odyssey, we mean all these works.

The Space Odyssey is extremely convincing. Everything in it is shown so realistically and nuanced, as if it were not the authors’ fiction but a story from the future transmitted to them by someone. Now that we have made serious progress on the path of…