Sentences with phrase «mysterious black monolith»
The Dawn of Man A primeval ape man makes a breakthrough - becoming endowed with intelligence after experiencing a mysterious black monolith.
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As digital and virtual networks infiltrate our everyday lives and subjective experiences, our relationship with technology manifests less as the fear of invasion by mysterious foreign forces, and more as an intimate grappling with newly mediated realities of time, space, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplation.
Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.