A retrospective look at the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey shows that Stanley Kubrick paid a great deal of attention to computer developments of the late 1960s. In particular, the recurring image of the monolith turns out to represent a monolithic integrated circuit. The movie shows that computers and other tools have an important role in creating the human race. And the film teaches a set of ethics for using the computer.
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