"(Someone) offered an interesting theory that was that the computer didn't make a mistake, it was just incorrectly programmed. And when it reacted with jealousy to the threat to its misssion, it was reflecting the emotions of its human programmers. A computer would not have emotions like that, and so maybe it was not the computer that failed, it was the computer technicians that failed. I know that's hard to believe here in 'Cybercity U.S.A.'"
--Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winning film critic
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
Sound: Courtesy 2001 I.R.A.Noted sci-fi design consultant got his start in the 1968 classic
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"2001" fills the theater
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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
