Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:44:00
RIP Arthur C. Clarke
We have lost a truly great mind. Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at age 90. Look around you. Everything you see is in some way shaped by Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov.
Sometimes I think that our best days - as creative and enterprising human beings - are behind us. Then I remember what men like Clarke have done, and how far we’ve come in just 50 years. I think about what it will be like to have technology allow me to be a fairly fit 175 years old. I’ll sit in a chair, on a porch somewhere warm, sipping something cool and reveling in the fact that I may be too old to get on the ship, but I’ll be damned if you can’t book a flight to the nearest inhabitable system now as easily as you used to be able to grab a cheap seat on an airplane. You know, way back in olden times.
We’re going Out There. One of these days, we’re going Out There. Men like Clarke will have made it possible.
Posted by JimK at 04:44 PM on March 19, 2008
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#2 Posted by Drumwaster 
on 03/20 at 11:38 PM -
Everything you see is in some way shaped by Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov.
You forgot Nikola Tesla, the Forgotten Father of the Twentieth Century.
If you haven’t seen the stuff this guy thought up, you’re missing out.
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I’m glad it’s not just me. I feel our society has become so flippin PC’d to death with entitlement hands out we have lost or are losing the dare to think differently about anything and come up with greatness.