Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
If you just have a single problem to solve then fine go ahead and use a...
Life goes on and I'm moving on to the next thing but I hope the soaps that...
Something I've realized lately to my shock is that I am an optimist in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.