JV and the Galaxy Express...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Saturn_v_schematic.jpg , 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#S-IC_first_stage

From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999#Plot ,

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1362

Leiji_Matsumoto was born on January 25, 1938 in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999#Adieu_Galaxy_Express_999 ,

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs29/f/2009/252/b/0/Galaxy_express_999_Wallpaper_by_Gradyz033.jpg ,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999#Inspirations_and_Influences ,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Express#Empire_State_Express_No._999 ,

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/julongun.htm ,

http://rocketry.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/the-quicklauncher-space-gun ,

http://www.fabioruini.eu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sav0228ss-jules-verne.jpg ,

http://www.julesverne.ca/vernebooks/jvbkfromearth.html ,

http://jf999.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post_7181.html

2001: ASO

So Bill Gates had his Tablet PC ready to go by the year 2001. Then Steve Jobs had his iPad ready for 2010.
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0020.html

2001: ASO was released April 6, 1968
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http://www.imdb.com/media/rm261462016/tt0062622,
http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/pics/ae3502.jpg,
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm915773440/tt0062622,
http://www.2001exhibit.org/about/odyssey2.html,
http://www.testpatternsite.org/TP2.08.1/2001.html,
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk,
http://www.kubrick2001.com,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4TQ1NTo50,

http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/2001
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http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/pics/mission13.jpg,
http://www.2001halslegacy.com,
http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/pics/hal05.jpg,
http://www.2001exhibit.org/sciTech.html,
http://www.palantir.net/2001/gallery/jupiter.html,
http://www.filmsite.org/twot.html
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2010 was released on December 7, 1984
http://databits-jf.blogspot.com/2009/12/2010-december-1984.html

It only took about half a century to go from a 1960 Etch a Sketch ketch to a 2010 iPad.

Wow, at that rate perhaps by 2060, 0.01% of earths population will be permitted to live on the Moon & Mars. Even then, its only for those that have gone through all the clearance protocol. For the foreseeable future, over 99% of the human population will be quarantined on earth. While some technologies will seem to progress rapidly, others could take decades, even centuries to be cleared for the general population to use.