Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site zehntel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: Comments on 2010 Review -- **SLIGHT Message-ID: <1698@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 12:56:37 EST Article-I.D.: zehntel.1698 Posted: Thu Dec 13 12:56:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 01:37:39 EST References: <1394@ritcv.UUCP> <12100004@acf4.UUCP> <267@umd5.UUCP> <1211@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Zehntel Automation Systems Inc, Walnut Creek CA Lines: 35 > > > Speaking of technology, wasn't anyone else dismayed at the 1950's level > of user-interface on the Leonov: buzzes, whistles and all sorts of gee-gaws, > and row upon row of SWITCHES! My God, we're dumping this today. How can > it other than insult us to see this proposed as the leading edge of hi-tech > 30 years from now? (One friend of mine pointed out that this was a > SOVIET ship, and hence was to be expected!) > -- > /Steve Dyer Yes, I was, for one. I thought that Kubric's forte' in 2001 was his ability to take today's (or at least mid '60s) technology and make believable extra- polations. Examples: the spacesuits were less bulky and more functional, the moon workers were using flat video displays instead of clipboards, the controls and instrumentation were, as Steve alludes to, sparse and efficient relying heavily on VDTs and other multi-use devices. In 2010, on the other hand, the technology seems to have moved *back* to Kubric's starting point, the mid '60s! The suits are bulky Beta cloth designs that could have come off of NASA's rack for the Apollo program. In fact, Max's suit was coated silver like the MERCURY program! What video displays there were all seemed to use stick graphics without any hidden lines. Perhaps the most bothersome, to me, scenes are when the Russians revive the Americans from hibernation. On the front of each of ther "sleep suits" are a couple of units that look like $15 VOMs from the corner Radio Shack! (My apologies to all of you at !trsvax). D'Arsonval movements in a ship that is supposed to be "ruggedized" for aerobraking? I know that it was a Soviet ship, but the Russians are supposed to be 5-10 years behind us, not 50! -- Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Inc. ...!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh