Quoting myself with an example that buttresses your point, written in May 2001:
I recently attended a talk in Chicago by Frederick I. Ordway III, technical advisor on 2001: A Space Odyssey. [...] Ordway showed a fascinating short film made to show theatre owners several months before the release, with the message "Here's this big space epic we're making, with lots of accurate science in it." Not a glimpse of apes nor psychedelia appears, but we see a lot about props and sets from the middle part of 2001. I liked the dollhouse-size centrifuge model they built to plan the big Vickers centrifuge set. One item that never made it into the final cut, a briefcase computer with integrated phone, video, and printer, got a laugh from the audience-- probably because it looked so 1983-retro.
In other words, this device was quite futuristic for 1968, but by 2001 we had overshot the future it was made for...
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I recently attended a talk in Chicago by Frederick I. Ordway III, technical advisor on 2001: A Space Odyssey. [...] Ordway showed a fascinating short film made to show theatre owners several months before the release, with the message "Here's this big space epic we're making, with lots of accurate science in it." Not a glimpse of apes nor psychedelia appears, but we see a lot about props and sets from the middle part of 2001. I liked the dollhouse-size centrifuge model they built to plan the big Vickers centrifuge set. One item that never made it into the final cut, a briefcase computer with integrated phone, video, and printer, got a laugh from the audience-- probably because it looked so 1983-retro.
In other words, this device was quite futuristic for 1968, but by 2001 we had overshot the future it was made for...