Arthur C. Clarke

Published 24 November 09 07:24 PM Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that aEURoeany sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.aEUR� Another characteristic of advanced technologies is that they often contain...

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...mice leave us unperturbed. But there are some things that are just beyond reasoning. Science fiction writer and all-round genius Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." On this...

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...dinosaurs have survived in The Lost World. These novelists directly inspired later generations of science-fiction writers such as Arthur C Clarke and Michael Crichton. By the 1930s science fiction filmmaking had become big business. Darwin,...

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...your brain waves, Intel's not planning on having you wear some kind of skull-cap--the solution venerable sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke proposed--no, instead you'll have tiny chips actually implanted directly into your brain. Brings a...

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...and attaching the other end to a large mass thousands of miles above the surface. Visionary author and inventor Arthur C. Clarke popularized the space elevator in his 1979 novel, "The Fountains of Paradise," set in the 22nd century. He...

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...Web URL is like a weird mishmash of numbers and letters, right? It's not entirely unlike some kind of magic incantation. Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,' and I think the...

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...the turn of a new millennium in 1999/2000 (plebs) it will be a decade but it will be 2010 for me and Arthur C Clarke: "Arthur C. Clarke gave this analogy (from a statement received by Reuters): "If the scale on your grocer's weighing...

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...what we dream to be possible to what we eventually create as a new reality. Gene Rodenberry's imagination in Star Trek and that of Arthur Clarke's, Marvin Minsky's and Stanley Kubrick's in 2001: A Space Odyssey had a direct impact on funding...

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Image From NASA MSFC, Artist Pat Rawling The legend that is Sir Arthur C. Clarke is formidable. As a science fiction author who knew how to mix imagination with scientific reality, Clarke left the world a legacy of wonderful stories as...

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...elevator Elevator could lead to space tourism, wind turbines, cheaper rocket launches Space elevator idea was explored by Arthur C. Clarke in 1979's "The Fountains of Paradise" "The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike...

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