In the movie the monolith was a divice left by a powerful race of aliens millions of years ago. They were responsible for the evolutionary process on Earth, and later on Europa (?). They represented a force beyond our understanding that we have to deal with in a very real way. When Jupider is ignited in one of the later books and becomes 'Sun of Lucifer', our solar system becomes bianary. I think it's more than the unknown having power. It is the unknowns power being everpresent. We have to deal with reality unfolding itself around us, and it's a big reality. It's about the expansion of relativly narrow vision. It is about growth and evolution; our growth and evolution as a species.
Aurthor C. Clark is one of the most brilliant men in the world. If you haven't read 2001 or 2010 or the rest of the series and you love philosophy or psychology or (of course) science fiction, this is a great series for you.
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