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2001: A Space Odyssey premiered 40 years ago this week:

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, provocatively ambiguous and often surreal imagery, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and a very minimal use of dialogue. … The film’s world premiere was on April 2, 1968, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

Many things in the film came to pass within the time constraints; sadly, permanent colonization of the Moon did not.

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