"In it's way, 'Star Wars' helped changed the face of movies too, and George Lucas acknowledged without '2001', 'Star Wars' wouldn't have been possible. Because so much of the automatic assumptions of an audience were in place before 'Star Wars' was made as a result of '2001'."
--Piers Bizony, author of "2001: Filming the Future"
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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
