In the late Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Huxley's leap of imagination is accomplished in the flesh by the astronaut Dave Bowman, who, having arrived at Saturn and travelled through the star-gate, duly returns to Earth equipped with a more-than-human perspective: "There before him, a glittering toy no Star-Child could resist, floated the planet Earth with all its peoples" (255). (The failure of Kubrick's special effects team to create a convincing visualization of the rings of Saturn meant that, in the film, he gets only as far as Jupiter (Greetings 345).) The immeasurably powerful posthuman being whom Dave has become occupies the ideal vantage point from which to contemplate the panorama of human history spread out before him, extending from the first dim gropings towards technical intelligence among the man-apes of the veldt to its culmination and eclipse in the age of space exploration. He is at once the subject and...
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