How accurate was Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" about the future?

Martin Belam compares the present with Kubrick’s vision of it. While Kubrick got plenty right, he failed to predict that meetings of the future might become less humane.

No PowerPoint

Part of the reason that Dr Floyd has been sent to Clavius Base is to deliver a morale-boosting speech to a crew bemused by what they have unearthed on the moon.

Frankly, there is no way that this would have been done in the real 2001 without the judicious use of PowerPoint featuring Excel charts and inspiring pictures of puppies, and probably some free branded goodies to take away and cheer everybody up.

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A best-of list for 2009? Already? I’ve bookmarked them all in delicious; go and save them all to yours if you’re pressed for time.

Where is the path (or street)

A split-screen map, with the Ordnance Survey map on one side and your choice of Google map on the other.

It might be interesting to try two types of Google map on either side of the screen, or four types in each corner. Overlay maps—and I’m thinking specifically of Google’s hybrid version—obscure some of the visual data. With side-by-side you don’t get this; it just takes up more space—a forgivable sin if you’re building a map for monitors only.

Migurski found this via Tom Taylor.