It fascinates me that even as recently as 1970, people were utterly stuck on the notion that a powerful computer simply HAD to be BIG....ENORMOUS...COLOSSAL. It never EVER occurred to them that circuit elements could shrink, or that a computer the size of a mountain or even larger would have VERY L O N G circuit pathways that would make it very slooooooooooow.
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All good things must come to an end - Chaucer
I don't understand your post?
The film is not set in the future so the technology is basically set in that same era without any predictions of where science and technology would be heading. The novel was written in 1966 and the film was released in 1970.
Making a film with a computer the size of a TV or today's laptop would have had people laughing in those days!
The beginning of this film is one of my favourite openings of any film. Alien also springs to mind where the screens come alive at the beginning of the film with the POV on the pilot's visor reflecting the data.
I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer!
Oh, Look?! A movie made in 1970 looks like it was made in 1970. I'm amazed!
shareIt's dated . . . not out-dated. I doubt you're intelligent enough to know the difference.
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I think you are talking things way too far. This is a movie so they technology
was just what they thought people could relate to ... period.
But even so, one could still design a computer with the old technologies, that
is what Seymour Cray the super-computer genius did, but with ECL logic.
All those technological problems can be solved or worked around ... of course
with unlimited money and power.
It is the software that would be the hard part, and of course in that age the
service or logistics to keep it running.
It's a great story and a movie very well done. I'd like to see it re-made, but I
really doubt they would do as well of a job.
It's not likely that we are going to see any AI think like this for over a hundred
years, and that would be soon.
Not really outdated though. It wouldn't have looked cinematic with people surrounded by a single small computer.
shareYes it is hilarious that the people who wrote the book Colossus and made the movie The Forbin Project were ignorant of Moore's Law. So hilarious. Ha ha ha ha. I can not stop laughing because it is so hilarious. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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