One year later man does land on the moon, yet the technology to build a colony is far from a reality. Today desk top computers can be found at work, in school, and in many homes, they have become part of everyday life. The computer has also learned how to play a game of chess. But inventions such as Artificial Intelligence, still have many years in the working. Today we might only dream of sending a manned vessel to Jupiter. And the medical advances have not brought us near enough to think we might put a man into hibernation.

Today the three leading telephone companies race to offer internet services and the cheapest long distance rates, yet a call in the US, is on the average .27 cents a minute during the day, and oversees, between .60 cents and 2 dollars per minute. It seems that in 1968 the escalated inflation of our current economy was not predicted. If this imagined telephone call were only to China today, it might still be over 10 dollars. We also do not have the same motivation we once did to explore space. Clark seemed to be very wrong in his predictions of 2001. But it is not the technology that is holding us back from the discoveries that await us. Clark lived in a time when space was the last 'frontier' today the United States is the last 'super power'



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