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American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part Two
American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part Two
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jan 2, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
A half century later, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” is still shaping our future. With no help from CGI, the movie predicted private space travel, artificial intelligence and much of Apple’s product line. It showed the promise and perils of technology and explored life’s biggest mystery: Are we alone in the universe? In Part Two of our look at the movie in our American Icons series, we visit the same IBM research lab that helped inspire HAL. We meet CIMON, a real-life AI robot on the International Space Station and Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut who blasted the “Blue Danube” in the space shuttle. Plus we speak to New York Times critic Wesley Morris, filmmakers Christopher Nolan and Tom Hanks, artist James Turrell and former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith.
American Icons is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jan 2, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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