End of an Era, Uplift, and the Singularity (was Re: 40 years ago . . .)

[Mauro Diotallevi]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Ronn! Blankenship
<ronn_blankenship at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 2 April 1968: the influential science-fiction film "2001: A Space
> Odyssey," produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, had its world
> premiere in Washington

Two things occur to me upon reading this.

First, Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke are often called the big 3 of the
"Golden Age" of written science fiction.  With Clarke gone, we are now
truly at the end of an era.

Secondly, like probably most people, I came out of the movie the first
time (okay, the first several times) going, "What the heck did THAT
mean," even though I knew I liked it.  After later reading the novel,
of course, I learned that Dave was going through a wormhole to a
distant part of the galaxy and evolving into the StarChild.

Or to put it another way, he was Uplifted past the Singularity.

I guess everything really *has* been done already in written science fiction.

-- 
Mauro Diotallevi
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