I wonder sometimes what Arthur C. Clarke thought about the real 2001, now almost seven years gone, versus the shiny, clean vision of 2001 he and Stanley Kubrick brought to the big screen. What happened? If Clarke and Kubrick's vision was indeed a real possibility as seen from 1969, then what went wrong? How is it we squandered that possible future?
Instead of space travel with Pan Am, revolving space stations, moon bases, and manned missions to Jupiter, we have poverty, war, incipient economic collapse, and embryonic fascism.
The snakes in suits, the predators among us, appear to be winning; power is everything—screw the future!
What did Clarke think of this as he watched the world from his seat in Sri Lanka?
Fans of Arthur C. Clarke may find this link about the Saturnian moon Iapetus interesting—especially the bit about Clarke receiving a Cassini probe photo of Iapetus, with a note from Carl Sagan that said, "Thinking of you...":
"Moon with a View"
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