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I just finished the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. I generally understood what was going on throughout the whole book except the last part. What exactly happened and what was the author trying to say?
he's not exactly a baby...he becomes the star child, a being of pure energy...he comes back in the sequels to the book...i actually didn't really understand it either until i read the sequels
It used a sort of remixed verison of 2001 a space odyssey's theme song as the beat. I think Biggie was in it...
I get everything up to the bit where they deactivate Hal, but then suddenly it goes really weird and ends with a baby??
if you haven't seen the sequel 2010, the baby was to symbolize the birth of a new sun, but it's classic Kubriek.
I need to do a book for my Honors L.A. class. 2001 SO is my back-up plan, but I'm looking for a book that's like Tuesdays with Morrie, but fiction, because TWM is light-hearted, yet still is thought-provoking. Preferrably a book that produces a "catharsis".
Absolute ludacris.
It's a friggin' book recommendation, people.
I think 2001 Space Odyssey is very much like poetry, so it has many hidden meanings and I'll give you an example. You remember the computer HAL? Well, what's the next letter after each of those letters.... IBM. The hint being that companies like IBM, on the cutting edge of technology, could likely develop something that could just have a mind of its own. Perhaps it might be a stretch to say that maybe HAL is simply an extension of IBM's corporate goal to rule the world.
In the beginning of the movie 2001: A space odyssey what is the metal beam called? It is also shown in the end. Also what is the meaning and significance of the beam?
It's alien technology ma'am!
It's called the monolith.
The first one taught monkeys how to use tools. When that monkey throws the bone up in the air, and it turns into a satellite, it's illustrating just how far we've taken this tool thing.
The aliens figured that if man could reach the moon, he probably had this tool thing under control, so they buried one there that would turn on when it was hit by sunlight after they dug it up. so they did, then it shoots this beam to the third one. They're kind of murky about it, and the book explains it a lot better, but it's basically the doorway to some intergalactic subway system.
So yeah, it's just a big black hunk of extra terrestrial machinery put there to guide man through his evolution.