Episode 55: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a classic film by Stanley Kubrick set in the distant future of 2001, when humankind finally evolves into spacefaring starbabies with no help from the AI they designed to help them. But the first act is set at the dawn of humanity, which means we get to review it on our prehistoric podcast! Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: Watch the 2001: A Space Odyssey dubstep remix: https://vimeo.com/98811524 Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_Males Darren Naish on tapir attacks https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tapir-attacks-past-present-but-hopefully-not-future/ The earliest evidence of stone tool use: https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/150520stonetools/ Chimpanzees hunt with spears: https://phys.org/news/2015-04-chimps-senegal-fashion-spears.html The Savannah Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_hypothesis The earliest bipedal hominins: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02226-5 The Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test Eliza Chatbot: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt Lunar regolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil Space grip shoes: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/magnetic-space-grip-shoe/overview/ Walking is really just falling and catching yourself: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/walking-really-is-just-falling-and-catching-yourself