What Healthcare Should Learn From Stanley Kubrick ’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Shooting of 2001: A Space Odyssey began fifty-two years ago, on 29 December 1965, but it still looks modern and believable. One of the best sci-fi movies of all times, if not the very best. What was the secret of Stanley Kubrick and what does that mean for modern healthcare? For example, he deliberately designed the cinematic future with the help of experts from NASA or the IBM, not “just” with artists. This is only one way how healthcare could benefit from adopting Kubrick’s methods: by letting people outside of the medical industry change current practices for the better. There are plenty of other useful ideas how we can reinvent healthcare using the mastermind’s playbook. A masterpiece was born – with unique methods Stanley Kubrick’s majestic undertaking, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was to become the best sci-fi movie of all times from the very first stills, according to both the American Film Institute and The Rolling Stone magazine. Part of its success – along with an eye-opening story, a brave script, and breathtakingly beautiful scenes – was how utterly futuristic it looked. When production on the 20th century Odyssey began, the Apollo program was still in its infancy, and manned missions have not yet reached the Moon. But the movie’s spaceships, cryopreservation capsules, and digital screens still seem modern and believable. They could easily be placed in contemporary films like Interstellar or The Martian without looking anachronist...
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