I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Michelangelo Miani’s cover art for the 1984 French edition of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
The Starchild from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), a page from Jack Kirby’s 1977 adaptation, and the original prop on display.
I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my assurance that my work will be back to normal.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a…fraid.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
“2001: A Space Odyssey”: What It Means, and How It Was Made
And then there is HAL, the rogue computer whose affectless red eye reflects back what it sees while, behind it, his mind whirrs with dark and secret designs. I.B.M. consulted on the plans for HAL, but the idea to use the company’s logo fell through after Kubrick described him in a letter as “a psychotic computer.”
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The unbearable pathos of HAL’s disconnection scene, one of the most mournful death scenes ever filmed, suggests that when we do end up with humanlike computers, we’re going to have some wild ethical dilemmas on our hands. HAL is a child, around nine years old, as he tells Dave at the moment he senses he’s finished. He’s precocious, indulged, needy, and vulnerable; more human than his human overseers, with their stilted, near robotic delivery.
Learning about the Future from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fifty Years Later
A lot has happened in the past 50 years, particularly in technology, and it’s an interesting experience for me to watch 2001 again—and compare what it predicted with what’s actually happened. Of course, some of what’s actually been built over the past 50 years has been done by people like me, who were influenced in larger or smaller ways by 2001.
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