March 18, 2008
Goodbye to Arthur C. Clarke
Says the New York Times:
From his detailed forecast of telecommunications satellites in 1945, more than a decade before the first orbital rocket flight, to his co-creation, with the director Stanley Kubrick, of the classic science fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey,†Mr. Clarke was both prophet and promoter of the idea that humanity’s destiny lay beyond the confines of Earth. Continue reading at the NYT.
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