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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
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Subject: Re: Re: Comments on 2010 Review -- **SLIGHT
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Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 12:56:37 EST
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> 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.
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