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50 years old, '2001: A Space Odyssey' still offers insight about the future

  • Written by Daniel N. Rockmore, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Computational Science, and Computer Science, Dartmouth College
50 years old, '2001: A Space Odyssey' still offers insight about the futureEven 17 years beyond 2001, spacesuits are bulkier than this.Matthew J. Cotter/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Watching a 50th anniversary screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” I found myself, a mathematician and computer scientist whose research includes work related to artificial intelligence, comparing the story’s vision of the future with the...

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