Article continues below advertisement2001: A Space OdysseySource: Warner Bros./YouTubeStanley Kubrick produced and directed '2001: A Space Odyssey.'Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey seemed to foresee what would happen in the future.In the 1968 epic science fiction film, astronauts use rectangular, wireless screens to perform tasks that resemble iPads and tablets in shape and function.In some scenes, astronauts communicate via video calls, even though similar devices and applications had not yet been invented at the time of the film's release.