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Title: Arthur C. Clarke, inventor of satellites, accurately describes the 21st century...in 1976
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1vQ_cB0f4w
Published: Feb 3, 2015
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Post Date: 2015-02-07 02:16:10 by Operation 40
Keywords: Future, Clarke
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Eric Mack Cnet.com February 5, 2015 While other futurists predicted flying cars and robots everywhere, Clarke was more interested in where communication was headed, and his predictions are remarkably accurate decades later. This week, AT&T released another Clarke video from its archives that was recorded at a conference in 1976. In a brief interview, Clarke expands on his vision of the time we're living in now, with a focus on communication. He nails almost everything, from the Internet and email to smartphones, Google and even smartwatches...snip more> Published on Feb 3, 2015 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author and futurist, crossed paths with the scientists of the Bell System on numerous occasions. In 1945, he concurrently, but independently, conceived of the first concept for a communications satellite at the same time as Bell Labs scientist, John Robinson Pierce. Pierce too, was a science fiction writer. To avoid any conflict with his day job at Bell Labs, Pierce published his stories under the pseudonym J.J. Coupling. In the early 1960s, Clarke visited Pierce at Bell Labs. During his visit, Clarke saw and heard the voice synthesis experiments going on at the labs by John L. Kelly and Max Mathews, including Mathews’ computer vocal version of “Bicycle Built for Two”. Clarke later incorporated this singing computer into the climactic scene in the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the computer HAL9000 sings the same song. According to Bob Lucky, another Bell Labs scientist, on the same visit, Clarke also saw an early Picturephone, and incorporated that into 2001 as well. In 1976, AT&T and MIT held a conference on futurism and technology, attended by scientists, theorists, academics and futurists. This interview with Clarke during this conference is remarkably prescient—especially about the evolution of communications systems for the next 30+ years. The interview was conducted for an episode of a Bell System newsmagazine, but this is the raw interview footage. Footage Courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ
Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick in the UK, 1968
http://www.cnet.com/news/arthur-c-clarke-describes-the-21st-century-in-detail-in-1976/
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Such a shame he was gay and never had children to pass his genius level DNA onto for future posterity to benefit from. Clarke was right on target with his predictions of future communications capabilities. Sort of reminds me of Apple Corp visionary Steve Jobs. ''In the future, people will do this and machines will do that''... One prediction that hasn't fully been realized is tele-commuting. Most working people still do not work at home and must travel to get to work. That could change with the advent of 3 and 4 dimensional printing and plotters.
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