Today's medical technology also does not compare with that imagined in 2001. We are currently working on similar technologies, yet these concepts are not yet feasible. Our current society might even be against the idea of hibernating humans for space travel. Our space technological advances have also died out. It almost seems as is once we finally reach our great destination, the moon, people began to lose interest. Rather than funding the space program, our government is interesting in funding the military. This funding does allow for advances in science, but a colony on the moon is not likely to exist in our lifetime. We are on a path that is moving away from travel beyond our own planet. The politically funded space race of the late sixties allowed us to land on the moon, and if our political environment were to change we might get there in the next twenty years. Today we have sent probes past Jupiter but manned missions beyond our own moon is a technology we do not have. As far as the space program is concerned it is not the technology that is holding us back but rather our politics and funding. Man in the 1960's like Clark where correct in there thinking by our culture has changed its tread away from the current one in 1968.