What-the-hell Science: The Future Is Not Now, But Seven Years Ago

What-the-hell Science: The Future Is Not Now, But Seven Years Ago

I read that the lack of dialog, letting the music become a big part of "2001" was one of its successes. A Kubrick museum in Germany, with many of the props from the film has held exhibits for a number of years now and has also started to travel. A Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (1993) recording of "Also sprach Zarathustra op. 30 (1896)" (Theme From 2001) also includes composer Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosen" which he wrote when he was 80 years old. Conceived as an "act of mourning for Munich" commissioned by the Collegium Musieum in Zurich, while Germany was collapsing in ruins in World War II, it suggests "in its splendour and affirmation of the plenitude of life...a moving epilogue to a richly varied existence." (Uwe Kraemer) I also find it odd that HAL reads lips in the film or does it? Perhaps a reminder that more dialog will help to prevent unintended consequences in this new age of telecommunications.