American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part Two

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A half century later, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” is still shaping our future. With no help from CGI, the movie predicted private space travel, artificial intelligence and much of Apple’s product line. It showed the promise and perils of technology and explored life’s biggest mystery: Are we alone in the universe? In Part Two of our look at the movie in our American Icons series, we visit the same IBM research lab that helped inspire HAL. We meet CIMON, a real-life AI robot on the International Space Station and Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut who blasted the “Blue Danube” in the space shuttle. Plus we speak to New York Times critic Wesley Morris, filmmakers Christopher Nolan and Tom Hanks, artist James Turrell and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Today on Studio 360s American Icons,
0:09.1	2001, a space odyssey.
0:11.3	It's Howells world now.
0:13.1	We just live in it.
0:14.4	Do you talk to Siri?
0:15.5	Do you talk to Alexa?
0:16.6	No, because 2001.
0:19.0	All I think about is Hal.
0:20.6	I hope the two of you are not concerned about this.
0:23.6	We meet a real-life AI robot on the International Space Station.
0:27.5	My robot feelings are fine, I guess.
0:31.1	And a NASA astronaut who used 2001 as a personal soundtrack.
0:35.5	We filled the whole space shuttle up with that music.
0:39.3	Christopher Nolan talks about the challenge of directing an ambitious space movie after 2001.
0:44.9	I can't make into Stella as if 2001 didn't exist.
0:48.7	And poet Tracy K. Smith tries deciphering what happens at the end.
0:52.5	That whole time, he doesn't blink.
0:55.7	Who knows what blazes through his mind?
0:59.2	The ultimate trip continues.
1:01.4	It's part two of our look at 2001, a space odyssey.
1:06.9	Studio 360.
1:12.6	Duh. Studio 360. Da,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from PRX, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of PRX and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.