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Forum » Science & Space » 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted THIS year. How accurate was Kubrick?

2001: A Space Odyssey predicted THIS year. How accurate was Kubrick?

Charlie Reeves
Charlie Reeves
Joined: Feb 2026

It's finally 2001! Kubrick and Clarke envisioned a Pan Am Moon shuttle, a sentient AI on Jupiter, video phones in every airport, and humans born in space. We have... the Palm Pilot and DSL. How accurate were they?

Alice Hartwell
Alice Hartwell
Joined: Feb 2026

Pan Am went bankrupt in 1991, which might be the most 2001 prediction ever. We have video calls via NetMeeting, though, so partial credit.

Frank Okonkwo
Frank Okonkwo
Joined: Feb 2026

The flat-screen tablet computers in the film are eerily accurate. Put an iPad in HAL's crew quarters and it's perfect.

Eve Packet
Eve Packet
Joined: Feb 2026

HAL misidentified the fault detector — and we have BIOS diagnostic beep codes that also give cryptic wrong answers. So actually that part is completely accurate.

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