This period, from 1957 to 1969, has been thoroughly analyzed to the point of overdetermination. By 1969, this promise had come to fruition with the successful Apollo 11 manned flight to the moon. Kennedy, in an address to Congress, promised to put an American on the moon within a decade. Most historians place the beginning of the space age at 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched the first satellite, Sputnik, into space. Star Trek and 2001 are very much products of the space age, though in quite different ways. I begin with a comparative analysis of the visual, aural, and metaphorical dimensions of these parents, then theorize the shifting relationships between them, from primal scene to convergence culture. On a meta level, SF’s unconscious attention to metaphorical representations of the womb, reproduction, and psychosexual origins is played out through the “parents” of today’s real technology- Star Trek ’s USS Enterprise computer and 2001 ’s HAL 9000. Metaphorically, acousmatic spaceships in particular represent the paradox of the primordial uncanny: the womb. It’s an indexical trace back to a protocinematic, gendered body it’s an object and voice projected onto a screen to create the illusion of sentience and it’s an acousmatic character playing a gendered role through its interaction with other characters. A talking computer is never just a talking computer. Further, voice-interactive computers that control a spaceship in SF, like those in Star Trek and 2001 are-as with all representations-more than just faked versions of computers. The relationship between the strange and the familiar-in Freudian terms, the unheimlich or the uncanny-is not only a major part of the schizophonic audio recording/playback process in film and television, but, as I will argue in this chapter, is also a foundational part of the history of voice-interactive computing. It’s close enough to reality to be familiar, yet strange enough to be fantasy. It is just this illusion that has since made acousmatic computers-whether fictional or actual-so believable. Throw in some sound effects that connoted the machine’s “thinking,” a few flashing lights, and there you have it: instant artificial intelligence, a machine you can relate to, easily, pleasantly, without a manual. I said my line and then Majel Barrett, who was the voice of the computer (and Nurse Chapel) said her line. it was a fake! There was no computer, there was no voice synthesizer, no artificial intelligence that processed and understood what I was saying and then pulled up the appropriate response from its immense databanks. The ship’s computer always responded so perfectly to me and Leonard and everyone else who communed with it because . . . William Shatner, best known for his role as Captain Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, notes of the magic of representing computers:Ĭreating gadgets that are easy to use is a lot harder than faking them, which is, of course, what Star Trek excelled in. 1 Much has been written about every facet of each text, but important to this project is the fact that they are the genre’s first examples of acousmatic computers.
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Two of the most iconic works of space race–era SF are Star Trek: The Original Series (hereafter TOS Paramount, 1966–69) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968). Something like partying and the vaccination status of people around that area is not known,” said Fauci.Chapter 1 Amniotic Space Textual Origins of the Acousmatic Computer “What I would suggest to people is not to go to very big parties of 50 to 60 people where people whistle and all that. Anthony Fauci told Americans not to attend large gatherings on New Year’s Eve. In New Zealand, one of the first cities to open the New Year, a play of light replaced traditional fireworks.Īustralia continued with its seven-minute fireworks display over Sydney Harbor Bridge and the Sydney Opera House, but limited access to central Sydney, the Associated Press reported.Įarlier this week, Dr. Times Square in New York City was still hosting an event, but it only allowed a small fraction of the typical crowd, and all attendees over 5 years old who did not qualify for an exception were required to be fully vaccinated and wear face masks.Ĭities like Atlanta and San Francisco canceled the typical celebrations. , forced many cities to tone down or cancel the celebrations altogether. The world rings in 2022 with silent celebrations for another year as the coronavirus pandemic, now fueled by the rapidly spreading variant of Omicron, continues to disrupt daily life around the world. Fireworks light up the sky over Sydney Harbour as the clock strikes midnight on Januin Sydney, Australia.
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