Arthur Clarke in 1964 predicts the future in 2000
An evening pause: Something to ponder over the weekend. The video only includes two short clips from this 1964 BBC show, and thus picks two that have ended up to be largely right. And though Clarke’s predictions were not all right, he hit the mark an incredibly high number of times.
Hat tip John Jossy.
"The only thing we can be sure of about the future, is that it will be absolutely fantastic."#OnThisDay 1917: Writer, futurist and inventor Arthur C Clarke was born.
In 1964, he appeared on Horizon and gave some astonishing predictions about the future. pic.twitter.com/ID0X7idWyy
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) December 16, 2023
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The wonder-world of 1960….
“To New Horizons” (1940)
The Futurama Exhibit at GM’s Highways & Horizons Pavilion
The New York World’s Fair 1939-1940
https://youtu.be/aIu6DTbYnog
(23:00)
“A World with a future in which all of us are tremendously interested, because that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives.”
Postrell’s book “The Future and its enemies” should be required reading…along with “METAMAN,”
Seizing the Future
“Higher Superstition–the academic left and it’s quarrels with science
Clarke and Robert Heinlein are my all time favorites. It is no surprise that Heinlein has a present day fan, one Elon Musk. Reach For The Stars is no longer science fiction.
Elon Musk is loosely based on Heinlein’s character D. D. Harriman.