"Clarke speculated that the reason Kubrick is so touchy about whether it's '92 or '97, is that Kurbick is the world's most fanatic perfectionist. And nothing in any of his films is allowed to be wrong. And Clarke said he thought maybe there was a typographical error in the screenplay or maybe the actor read the line wrong. But obviously it was 1997 because you wouldn't trust the most important space journey in the history of mankind to a nine-year-old computer. It's kind of like if you were sitting there today with an IBM PC from 1981 with no hard drive."
--Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winning film critic
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Sound: Courtesy 2001 I.R.A.Noted sci-fi design consultant got his start in the 1968 classic
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Local film critic embarks on the odyssey again
Professor screens "2001" with a student who had never seen it before
"2001" fills the theater
Roger Ebert hosts wide-screen showing at the Virginia Theater
Digital GretzkyU of I researchers developing an air hockey playing computer
NASA looking beyond 2001
Space station, unmanned probes top the near-term agenda
Links to "2001" websites
Includes interviews, essays, pictures, sound bites and a chance to talk to HAL9000
