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A bunch of these songs belong to another artist: Stephen Bartholomew Clarke.
Picaso at Wounded Knee, etc. The solo acoustic pieces from the recording "Roots N Hubris"..
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Clarke Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Clarke:

Am I Blue I used to think a lot Confusing right from wrong I can't…
At Last One, two, three I drink my coffee black I eat my chocolate…
Beautiful Love is funny or it's sad, Or it's quiet or…
Brother This day is slower than the last We always say It's…
Clarke Lost in time no time in space Never thought wed…
Don't Ever Come On Back What do you want from me? Keep saying that you're sorry Then…
Feeling Good You feeling good? You feeling good? You feeling good? You…
Girl Don't forget our promises yeah Otherwise it's dangerous You'…
Race Well, I came down there with my hat caved in Oh…

The Other Side Softly, down toward A face as light as city bright And blood…
What Was Her Name Blackstrobe Remix Learning lines in the rain Special effects by Loonatik and D…
Woman in Love I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Ben BamBoo

@Haste Kulvaati " There is a lot of popular science that is frankly superior to Clarke’s rather trashy TV output from the 1970's and 80's." 😆

Wow.

You clearly have no idea whom you're talking about on the smallest level if you're now attempting to reduce Clarke even further to just his TV appearances from the '70s and '80s instead of his award-winning literary work of over 50 books dating back to the 1950s and spanning over several decades.

And more importantly, all that those works led to.

His authorship in science fiction was so outstanding they even named an award after him which is given annually to anoint the best science fiction author to this day.

Furthermore, countless scientists, astronomers, astrophysicists, astronauts, computer and space engineers, etc. have directly cited Arthur C. Clarke as their inspiration for pursuing their respective fields.

Space exploration itself in large part was inspired by him. So everything from the moon landing, the exploration of Mars, images of distant galaxies and celestial bodies from space telescopes you see today, and space satellites which make possible a lot of the technology (like tv, radio, the internet, etc.) that you and billions of people across the world rely on the most today, spawned from his work.

And we're just now in 2023, at the very dawn of the AI capabilities Arthur wrote about in the 1960s.

As incredible as that alone is, Clarke's far-reaching impact didn't just stop there as George Lucas stated that Star Wars was partly inspired by " 2001: A Space Odyssey " which was adapted from Clarke's book of the same name.

And of course, much like Arthur and his work, the 2001 A Space Odyssey film itself was completely groundbreaking. And highly decorated having won the Academy, BAFTA, and 3 Hugo awards. The film also cemented Stanely Kubrick as one of the most seminal directors in cinematic history.

And if you think Clarke's impact on film, science, and the literary arts just stops there, you still aren't listening.

But I would expect that from a youtube commenting genius who actually thinks that Arthur C. Clarke is just some old '70s and '80s hack on TV.

Welcome to today's lesson on how absurd that assertion is and couldn't be further from the truth because of such the significant role he played in advancing human civilization in reaching toward the stars. Both literally and figuratively. And in science, technology, space exploration, cinema, literature, and our imaginations.

Tomorrow we'll learn how some internet know-nothings regress civilization. And do the opposite of all of those.

Thanks for proving my initial point so convincingly and resoundingly Haste. On your way now.

MagePie

2y↑1

I think that in a way he was "right" about the servants conceptually but wrong practically,
the error coming from him missing the field of Robotics.
In a way it is kind of funny how he probably makes the error because he falls into the very trap he warns about himself,
that if the theory feels to plausible it is probably wrong,
as modified animal servants at the time probably was very much more believable than the concept of robots.

No need to have a chimp cut the grass or vacuum your home when you can have a robot do it.
Same goes for transportation, manufacturing and organization.
Animals are just way to much maintenance, fragile and will always have a certain degree of unpredictability that is comparatively absent in robotics.

For example all these bipedal monkeys we have running around all over the place...

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Kevin Burdekin

2y↑1.8K

Arthur C Clarke lived to 2008 so he lived long enough to see his communication prediction come true. What a genius!

MAKIUSO

@chris murphyi think peta wouldn't like it.

Quintessence

@Dartmoor Kid are you kidding me? You need to listen to this again because up until he starts describing computers inside our brains, every single thing came true.

Quintessence

I'm so glad to hear this because I came to the comments to ask how long he lived. It's wonderful that he was able to realize how true his predictions were.

Patrickk Parrker

So he's been burning in hell since 2008 , well I never .

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Fredric Henning

1y↑619

He was also a kind person. He actually answered a letter I wrote him describing an invention of mine. I still have that letter in my safety deposit box.

Pendulous Testicularis

52w

Treausure that. That is priceless.

Joe King

1y↑1

well you better get it out pretty damn fast before the bank bails it in

Ben Way

If you haven't you should make a digital copy available.

Palo Hagara

@Fredric Henning Not an expert here, but it seems interesting. Which principle have you thought out to detect the exact spot of laser beam interrrupting? Suppose it was not the time/difference detection as ordinary laser or radar detector/weapon aimer had used (and is using till now).
Because, AFAIK such similar quantum principle is used in detection of faulty optic cable, for example during loong thousands-kilometers journey under the ocean. I was told it uses some heisenberg and quantum principles in the laser beam.
Each optic cable now uses multiple laser beams modulated, to increase its data transfer capacity, as you surely know, so it is probably not possible to distinct an error / crack in transfer medium as an source of reflection (an exact place of such a crack).
Thanks for the answer at some future, see ya 😀

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MarkieMAN64

2y↑612

What strikes me most in this isn't his actual predictions, some have come true, some have not, but his awareness of where they were back then compared to the distant pass and how that relates to his future. He also seems very aware that people from his future will be able to watch this video, which is quite striking too.

Weeks75

Some have not.....yet. He mentioned 2064 when he was talking about one hundred years from now.

x b

Cities are in the process of fighting back against remote work. Even though its 100% doable and better for a lot of office jobs. Cities give companies incentives to be there…. Remote work destroys a lot of the power that cities have. Things don’t change without a fight.

TJ Marx

@Iain Herridge Nice example of an "I know you are but what am I". Isn't it passed your bedtime?

Iain Herridge

@TJ Marx You're right yours IS A VERY SILLY COMMENT!

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MrGriff305

1y↑260

He predicted the internet, smart phones, telecommuting, remote surgery, information overload, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and 3D printing. To be honest, some of his predictions for 2064 haven't happened yet, but they're right on schedule. This is truly a brilliant man.

MrGriff305

52w

@Pendulous Testicularis True and interesting.. thanks

Pendulous Testicularis

52w↑1

His most significant prediction was artificial satellites.

MrGriff305

@Vernes Mujkanovic What?

Vernes Mujkanovic

1y↑1

Nikola Tesla

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Spontaneous-Vulgar-Lingual-Combinations

1y↑188

I own every single one of his books and short stories. He is one of the best writers I have ever read. This man is a genius and had a talent for writing that to this day feels futuristic and keeps me hooked.
If you have never read his work and enjoy science and/or science fiction please read his books. You will love them.
Some of his best: The City and the Stars, A Fall of Moondust, Beyond the Fall of Night, The Songs of Distant Earth, the Rama series, the A Time Odyssey trilogy, the 2001 A Space Odyssey books, The Deep Range, Dolphin Island, Childhood’s End and Islands in the Sky

Joseph Ososkie

A little cavalier about transhumanism.

Joseph Ososkie

He’s a good writer. Engaging. But with his reputation all he has to do is call AT&T, silicon valley and any number of research sources and they would flood him with their predictions. Presto, next book.

Thomas Kauser

@yuriyuri- STAND ON ZANZIBAR -
BRUNNER DID!
also the rollerball murders and other short stories is a great read?

Tony Brayley

@Yuriy Yuriy
You make a really good point. Having said that, If one knew what things were like in 1964, I think it would be impossible to imagine how drastically humankind has morally devolved....even for a genius, and forward thinker, like Arthur. I won't get into the politics of this moral degradation, but it's such a big part of things. Definitely a discussion for a different venue, and a different day.

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Ben BamBoo

1y↑125

It hurts my heart that most young people don't know who this brilliant man is.

Moshé משה

Most of earth people took a jab without knowing what in hell was inside...there are for sure, horrible things than do not know Arthur C. Clark (btw, I'm addicted to his books)

Sam Gamgee

Never mind. They also never heard of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis or Laurel and Hardy. Of course, they still admire the Three Stooges though!

Ben BamBoo

@Haste Kulvaati It's quite an absurd question and premise to judge him based solely on what era his work was done in instead of how prescient and farsighted it was.

If you actually read any of his books or seen the films adapted from them like 2001: A Space Odyssey or 2010: The Year We Make Contact, you'd already very well know that even several decades later, we still have yet to reach the level of space exploration or technological advancement he wrote about.

So to whine and make the wildly nonsensical, completely false claim that " it's hardly cutting-edge stuff " is nothing short of a clear demonstration of how little you know about his work.

Maybe learn about it first before making such statements any further Haste.

Haste Kulvaati

@Ben BamBoo Come now boomie, no need to be touchy.

BTW how much should young people be absorbing from a science advocate and author talking in the 1960’s. It’s hardly cutting edge stuff.

Perhaps they have better knowledge of public intellectuals and authors who have come to prominence in the intervening years.

There is a lot of popular science that is frankly superior to Clarke’s rather trashy TV output from the 1970’s and 80’s.

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Opuskrokus

2y↑688

This guy would make a great science fiction writer with an imagination like that.

Sage Drake

he has and written many books including the movie "2001".

Larry Grimaldi

I remember reading one of his science fiction novels when I was a kid.

Truth Warrior

What planet are you living on?

Cmdr Sighman

He was a room mate of William F. Temple's once - and Temple wrote one of my favourite scifi series ever.

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michael granger

1y↑62

I read all of his books back in the 60s and 70s, and recently bought a book that contains all 200+ of his short stories and read it. He was a visionary unmatched in the literary world.

David Siegfried Klinger

H G Wells , Jules Verne?

CurlyChrizz

Did you invest your money based on his predictions?

James Groff

1y↑38

My grandfather was first gen counsel of NASA and later become chief international negotiator and then CEO for COMSAT. He always gave credit to Clarke for conceiving comm sats and often explained to me, a child in the 80s, how the internet, etc would work, and said credit should go to Clarke. He had a whole shelf of books by Clarke and told me to read them but I did not. The ironic thing was my grandfather refused to get cable tv, use a cellphone, etc, saying the devices were being misused.

Anca Paduraru

1y↑1

You should read some of his SF novels. They are a treat.

Paul Michael Freedman

1y↑1

Your Gramps is possibly directly, or indirectly one of the founders of the modern internet. The internet as we know it has its roots in the 1970s and 1980s before it became the world wide web around 1992/93.

Garth Horsfield

1y↑2

He's a brilliant man and I've read a lot of his books. Not to say he wasn't without some of the foibles of his generation, but he had some amazing insights into where things might go.

Ron Cork

2y↑40

It's a shame we don't have politicians with equally forward thinking ideas and commitment.

MrTomyCJ

Politicians don't need his commitment, they need his humbleness. That is, if we asume politicians have good intentions in the first place.

Jari

but they are forward thinking and commited but for their cause whatever that might be

Mike G

1y↑1

@C0deH0wler Am I the only one who doesn’t get this walkable city fad as the ideal vision of the future. I’m more excited by the rejuvenation of small town main streets, mom & pop shops making a return and the ability for people to start moving back out again into quiet, low-populated areas thanks to satellite internet and the expansion of broadband. I don’t want to take a train OR drive everywhere, ideally I won’t have to travel everyday.

C0deH0wler

We do. Look at the Netherlands, at least at the city level right now. When your metros start getting enough cycleways and transit (will probably take 150 years at your rate), the cultural momentum will change.

Goatface6

2y↑6

Politicians are obsolete. The problem is, most people can’t see how destructive politicians really are.

Lee

1y↑32

He was such an insightful man, a true visionary. I loved watching his mysterious world/universe series when I was a kid. I could just listen to him for hours; really wish he was still among us.
RIP Sir Arthur.

Ernest Bywater

2y↑276

The two big problems ACC missed out on were the extreme strength of social inertia putting serious brakes on developments they don't like; and the desire for individual power by people wanting to take over the world causing huge delays in advances by wasting all sorts of resources in the push for their own personal greed an aggrandizement.

Guinness

@Ernest Bywater that’s because houses are built to make every major company more money, not for people to live economically in.

Guinness

Social inertia can also be caused by technological lock in.

MrTomyCJ

That social debate has existed in that era too. Back then there too was people claiming people are greedy and stuff like that. Arthur did seem more optimistic than them. Today's "revolutionaries" like to think their ideas are new...

Karayip Mavisi

The exponential improvement of information technologies seems to be generally unaffected by world issues. When it does get affected it's temporary and in a graph the time period when the slowdown occurred looks like an S curve, where it stays stagnant for a bit and then explodes again later.

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Stewart Mackay

1y↑2

1:35 When he said that it really brought something home to me. When I was 10, in 1974, we had a school assignment to write an essay entitled "Life In Th Year 2000". It seemed so far in the future, so distant and so futuristic. How I imagined and how I dreamed.

J G

1y↑15

I loved Arthur C Clark’s books. And it’s really interesting 20+ years after the 2000 yr prediction his predictions are so accurate!

Nick Kacures

1y↑5

I have always enjoyed reading Arthur C Clark and it’s amazing to see his predictions and how spot on they were

li2us

1y↑9

Mr. Clarke has been one of my favorite authors for six decades. "Across The Sea of Stars" is an anthology of some of his greatest works. I love that book! I also love the fact that he worked on the first satellite system. A true visionary.

Andrew Russell

1y↑1

Such a clever and considerate man. He had that fortunate gift of being a good communicator.
Added to his verbal communication gift, he wrote wonderful books.
His type are sadly missing (so far) from this century.

Martyn Lewis

2y↑125

He nails the principle of working remotely and contacting people anywhere in the world where ever they maybe. Other subjects he talks about, for now at least, exist only in movie franchises like Star Trek, The Terminator and Planet Of The Apes.

Good Bunny

1y↑1

@Funk Master I suspect he was thinking beyond even 3d printers. Imagine a machine that takes an input of organic rich soil or slurry, re-arranges it at the molecular level and outputs an apple.

BK007

@Funk Master You can also replicate written paper using copy machines and printers, invented a long time ago.

LFK

@Edward Bernthal yes sounds like de-evolution.

Edward Bernthal

1y↑1

@Ell why should we have servants? can't we do things for ourselves anymore.

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This is us.

1y↑16

I'm watching this with a shiver up my spine (truthfully) as I have a 'duplicator' sat next to me by way of a 3d printer. My goodness, I am forth hence, speechless.

Vulcan Works Electrical Services

1y↑7

He was so close with his prediction of home working and no more commuting, in fact it actually happened during the pandemic

The Covid Prisoner

1y↑1

Clarke was a true modern predictor of the future . Bearing in mind he predicted what we are using right now its astonishing so few know or appreciate his work. Even Bill Gates scoffed at the idea everyone would own a pc so that's how far Clarke was ahead of his time.

Aaron Walderslade

1y↑6

An absolute visionary. His books are still astonishing to read and I still read them

Brian Jones

1y↑2

Nailed it !
He was right about one thing. What he told me was unbelievable. Unbelievable in the fact of how accurate he was.

Joel D.

2y↑99

Informed, intelligent and a creative genius - nails it. What makes his predictions more powerful - is the year he is making them in.

Hans Dunkelberg

2y↑4

@dixon pinfold Can you specify that fear, a little?

dixon pinfold

2y↑2

I see him more like Professor Frink on The Simpsons: a highly intelligent philistine. The type of person best kept far away from power and any real influence.

Johan Söderberg

2y↑2

He proposed that in the future, we should not commute but communicate. Yet, should we have a desire to commute in space, despite the enournous amounts of time and energy required to reach any destination where there, with only a faintest likelihood possibly could be something to visit at all...

The world could be as he predicted but mankind is mankind and sceptics has denied us reliable energy and antidemocrats has ruined the culture in one of our largest countries on earth...

fedzalicious

2y↑25

I tried to tell my wife that a monkey butler wasn't a stupid idea. It did rip her face off, God rest her soul, but there's always bugs to iron out when adopting a new technology.

Dinah Brown

🤣

Roger Dodger

2y↑1

@fedzalicious Isn't that what freedom is all about? You're free to keep the mental shackles on, or go with the flow. Everyone gets to plow their own row.

fedzalicious

@Roger Dodger the only "race" that I hold any contempt for is humanity.

fedzalicious

@Roger Dodger so why that name?

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Handy Andy

1y↑16

Don't care what anyone says, Arthur was uncannily accurate in some of his predictions!

Paul lebbon

2y↑7

I am too young to have viewed this live, but after watching the entire 12 minutes, I honestly believe that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Gene Roddenberry, were all sat around the TV set taking notes. Pierre Boulle was drinking wine and trying to write a sequel to La Planète des singes and everyone else were thinking the TV presenter had lost the plot. Great piece of TV history and well worth my 12 minutes.

terry Sullivan

1y↑1

Pretty damn sure all those folks read Clark's writings from their childhood. Clark, Asimov, Brin, Heinlein, and many more. I grew up reading all of them and often wondering what was taking so long. Now, finally, we have Elon Musk actually doing it.

RuffMeow

Just a case of the collective unconsience at work. You'll see

Mister Rea

2y↑21

He came from a generation of hope and saw the wealth of possibilities in the future. We need visionaries like that. It doesn't seem like he was reckoning with the inherent limitations on how to realize those hopes. I love this optimism.

Eneco

@Martin Solomon Cat girl maids would be better to be honest

Johannes Dolch

2y↑1

That's why i invest in Tesla. Just saying.

TheNapster153

@Martin Solomon I try and look at this in a way of more positive light. The best I can come up with is that introducing new sapient life into the human order would (no proof of this) encourage the species as a whole to further improve on itself, if only to stay ahead of those they would deem beneath them.

It's a rather unsettling truth, but the flipside of the coin is humanity getting complacent in its own belief of intellectual superiority.

Martin Solomon

2y↑3

And monkey servants. Gotta love monkey servants and dolphin maids.

Conrad Sieber

1y↑6

What a brilliant guy. 2001 a space Odyssey still holds up as grasping at the future and it was made in 1968. He has many great science fiction books too.

Sean S

2y↑39

Amazingly insightful, especially about telework and also AI. My admiration for his intellect only grows.

Kevin P

Just imagine what he can't talk about being a government contractor

John Morris

1y↑3

I took up reading Arthur C Clarke in about 1970, a genius by any measure.

Anthony Leone

1y↑4

He gave screenwriters the plot of a ton of sci-fi films in this clip.

ranradd

1y↑10

The replicators are coming! Love him and his writings. We're not even to his 100 years in the future, and things are already technologically amazing compared to 1964 (at which time I was a young lad.) Human belief systems are still lagging well behind technological progress though.

JRG

1y↑2

1st thing that came to mind was a 3D printer.

Stephen

1y↑2

Amazing, yet not surprised, Clarke was a true visionary.

gggggggg

1y↑9

The 4 things I remember him for are;
1, he had a part in inventing radar
2, communication satellite
3, 2001 A Space Odyssey
4, His TV show, Mysterious World
Every now and then through history, certain people just seem to arrive, Newton, Galileo, Da Vinci, Hawking...... could he be added to the list

Purefoldnz

and the whole child pedo thing.

GeVeBe Gaming

2y↑52

He seriously knows his stuff, or he's a time traveller...RIP Arthur, you would be amazed at how far we have come (im sure you are frozen somewhere waiting for Immortality)

Dinah Brown

He’s aware 😊

here's johnny

2y↑2

@GeVeBe Gaming Oh yes you're the height of intellectual prowess, good boy.....🙄🙄 find a cliff pal.

GeVeBe Gaming

2y↑1

@here's johnny Facepalm :-)

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Peter Biesbroek

2y↑42

He has foreseen too, the 3-D printer as an all in one duplicator, great writer, great visionair.

Austin Kole Carlisle

duplicator could simply be virtual reality.

Orla

@Golden.Lights.Twinkle well maybe in 44 years it will , who knows 🤷🏼‍♀️

Alien Soup

1y↑2

@Didier Puzenat The Star Trek replicator most likely would require an immense amount of energy. There is always a difficult trade-off with these types of ideas.

will williamson

1y↑1

@Didier Puzenat def based on a total misunderstanding of economics and human exchange.

Didier Puzenat

I think what Arthur C Clarke had in mind is more a Star Trek replicator. In Star Trek it is suppose to mark the end of consumerism but also of the need to work. Of course people still have useful activities, but not to live since anything can be replicated.

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Mark Berman

1y↑5

This is why he was one of the first on my reading lists as a kid.

Sven Piper

1y↑3

Wow, Arthur C. Clarke was truly a visionary.

Dan LaFollette

1y↑3

Dang I guess we haven't gotten to monkey butlers yet. 😜 But he sure has nailed communication and working from any place on the world.

techtonic

1y↑2

Amazing visionary.. I was fortunate enough to meet with and do some early IT work with him, his brother Fred & visit rocket publishing. A real gent 🙏

Sean Fitzgerald

2y↑68

I like how this guy predicts work from home in 1964. What he didn't predict is that people would be so ignorant and so addicted to the world of cars, offices and the power structures built around them, that they wouldn't be able to let go and continue advancement. Which is why we're comparatively in the dark ages compared to the 1960s, at least in attitude.

Tony Mercer

@Acme. Nipp-on-AiR I wasn't saying that, if you work say ten hours per day alone that ain't good.

Acme. Nipp-on-AiR

@Tony Mercer why do you think that people outside of work don't go to social events and interact with each other?

Tony Mercer

1y↑1

Working from home makes people lazy, they don't exercise or mingle with other people.
We are as humans social and need to interact with each other on a personal level, besides I can't do my job from home and wouldn't want to.
I enjoy my daily commute, calling at the paper shop chatting with the owner, meeting customers and delivery driver's, then calling for a pint on my way home.
I get fresh air and exercise without going to a gym.

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Alfa Won

2y↑16

What an amazing visionary. Alot of his predictions have already come true

Allan Rattee

Where is HAL now we need him?

Alfa Won

@Tobias Schächtele No but we build a lot of black monolith buildings nowadays 😆

Tobias Schächtele

1y↑1

Did we solve the servant problem with the help of the monkey kingdom? Did I miss that? 🤣

david cunningham

1y↑2

amazing how many of his predictions are spot on.

VAST

1y↑7

Just amazing AC's futuristic mind was. Let's see, I tallied up his projections and just about 90% of them were pretty accurate. Just amazing. I wished he had made this video again in 2000 with updated projections. Shame nobody thought of asking him to do another.

stockholm17

2y↑5

I’m stuck by how enthusiastic he was about these predictions. I wonder if he felt the same at the end of his lifetime.

John Cox

1y↑1

He was the first scientist to not only conceive of, but actually describe and name the satellite as we know it today back in the 40's.

Giles Littlefield

2y↑17

such a clever man, I love his writing

greensky01

2y↑37

@1:32 He totally got the part about communication and remote work so accurately correct.

Angry ANIMATOR

He missed the Tik Tok Hype House, but honestly can't be blamed for that!!!!

jortega999

1y↑2

True to a certain extent. Many companies hate remote work because of outdated management methods. They want butts in seats so that supervisors can ask for TPS reports. Unfortunately, the trend is back to the office. Corporations seem to miss the fact that allowing remote work helps with climate change and is like giving a pay raise without actually doing so. While tech evolves, we don’t.

Spike's Pa

1y↑1

As long as the work consists of sitting at a desk or table inputting data in some form. Difficult to roof a house or do plumbing remotely.

ellie

1y↑2

The technology for remote working has been available for some time but only culturally accepted during lockdown when it became a necessity.

Wol747

He was actually the man who described the techniques of satellite communications before the first satellites were built.

William Stephen Jackson

2y↑127

I am a huge fan of this man’s work. But even he seemed to forget the most important single thing which would not change. Us.

Christin songbird

Wrong

li2us

I think his vision of artificial intelligence touched upon that problem.

Nigel Davey

He was a Technician first and foremost. For the human angle you need to read Eric Blair.

R Duff

1y↑4

@Hey Yo It sounds like you have been following Klaus Schwab, founder of the WEF, and Yuval Noah Harari because that is exactly what they are planning, but we will not be kings but Zombie-like slaves. Pax

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Shirley Balinski

1y↑1

3-D printers, instant communications, Mars, planetary travel, long distant work & travel, demise of cities, all foretold by Mr.Clarke. Never a fan of science fiction but, I did enjoy this man, his voice & ability to grasp the reader/ viewers attention.

Tsjuun Tze

2y↑11

I remeber watching Arthur C Clarke's mysterious universe series on the discovery channel, back in the day it was still good.

David Long

1y↑6

Before watching I knew he was a true visionary and he proposed the geostationary orbit solution for satellites. Interesting that he put quite short future time estimates on many of the things which have since developed into reality. They’d have been considered absolutely incredible at the time. Other things we still see as far fetched he also probably saw them as very long term if they ever came about.
(I wondered if he had any social commentary. Just as he begun on what he revealed to be AI, for a second I thought he was actually going to say it would be women providing the intelligence society was not yet properly including... That would have been just too far fetched as a concept for early 60s male dominated Britain I guess !)

w9gb

2y↑10

1964 Worlds Fair was well timed for Stanley Kubrick’s new project 2001.
Not only meeting with Arthur C. Clarke, but seeing the work of Douglas Trumbull and
hiring spacecraft consultants Frederick Ordway and Harry Lange.

Danny Ward

2y↑16

He truly was a genius 🙌🏼

Kevin P

1y↑1

That or a good psychic

Martin Solomon

2y↑2

I’m impressed Unlimited abundance. Living on the moon. monkey servants, dolphin assistants. creating environments on hostile planets. Literally all of these came true and are reality today. He was more like science fact than fiction.

gary foster

1y↑2

WOW this guy was right on the path on so many subjects! I found this talk brilliant ,I'm amazed I have not heard more about his guy but deffently plan on looking for more of his work .What a visionary

diquad humungersaur

may i suggest you look into his personal background as well as his works...

Paul John

1y↑6

Visionary. The world needs more people like him.

MyImmaculateQueen

1y↑1

@Paul John I get that ALL the time

Paul John

1y↑1

Well that's odd i can't even see the 3 replies on my own post 🤔🤔

tom greaney

Elon Musk

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John

1y↑1

Clarke, always a visionary.👍

inceptional

2y↑106

Wow, watching this in the age of Covid, when, really, we're at a point where doing everything remotely has become everyday life a huge chunk of the human population, it seems he really was truly seeing the future.

here's johnny

2y↑2

@Spymaster So don't go back....you've only got one life and there's plenty of wealthy individuals who'll happily give you money for an appropriately presented idea.

here's johnny

2y↑2

Graveyards full of people like this, warnings, predictions all mostly going unheard and unappreciated until the words "I told you so" echo on the winds.

Spymaster

2y↑15

Except for when the boss tells everyone to come back to work in the office :(

madsteve9

1y↑2

One of the best Arthur C Clarke real life stories, I heard was from 1992, he was invited to the memorial party for Malcolm Forbes (Forbes Magazine) everyone, who was anyone in New York business & celebrity was there.

Arthur walked up to "Ted Turner" of CNN, and gave him an invoice for $1 Billion Dollars. Everyone pissed themselves laughing.

I think Ted, did give Arthur a consultancy job.

Patrick Webb

1y↑7

That was truly mental. Thank you BBC for uploading this historical video!

JohnH

Yes indeed!

A Poet’s Corner

1y↑2

Wow. Imagine a world where we all thought like Arthur, Tesla, or Einstein.

Edward Arredondo

1y↑2

A pioneer and genius. He was one of the greats.

Peter Hill

1y↑2

He was a guest speaker at a conference I attended in 2001. He used a video link from his home. Technology he predicted.

WestJim

2y↑9

What foresight this man had... The internet, 3d Printers, communications etc...

LucYfYre Arch of TwiLight

2y↑2

What a visionary he was.

JA.T Lanham

1y↑1

OMG, I was not even one-year-old now I’m an old hag and every thing he said came true that’s incredible.

Loretta Chardin

1y↑2

Wow1 Imagine being able to communicate instantly with anyone on earth! Imagine being able to conduct business anywhere!

Devotee

2y↑5

He was only about 20 years out, and one pandemic, that fast forwarded video conferencing and remote working — along with the beginning of the end of major cities from a work perspective.

James Rogal

1y↑7

The “replicator” he describes became a reality as 3-D printing. Impressive!

Austin Kole Carlisle

or virtual reality

S Lohmann

I think he was thinking along the lines of a Star Trek replicator (probably an idea “stolen” from him) that would be able to copy the molecular structure of any given object.

156dave

2y↑8

Arthur and Stanley what an incredible combination

Fred

2y↑18

Having read many of his works, Arthur C. Clarke was, in my opinion, the most practical SF visionaries of the medium. I especially liked his elevator to an orbiting space station that I believe was actually considered by NASA and is theoretically possible.

E. S.

@Jordi H as long as it's tied firmly to the ground (and it should be), a hurricane will not impose a critical level of force upon such a massive structure.

Hans Dunkelberg

@eyesuckle I've grasped it a little after posting my reply, anyway, just not finding it helpful to say so. "Suspend operations", thank you for the joys of this point! I like such jokes, they remind me of lovely teenage girls.

eyesuckle

@Hans Dunkelberg Hans, I have nothing but admiration for people who speak a second language; you are a better man than I am! I was not making fun of your English. Indeed, you used the perfect word. I was actually laughing along with what I thought was a very clever pun that you made.

Hans Dunkelberg

@eyesuckle I wouldn't see a problem with my argumentation in that word, although English is not my mother tongue and perhaps the expression doesn't match what I meant. I meant "interrupt".

eyesuckle

@Hans Dunkelberg Ha ha! "Suspend" operations. I see what you did there!

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ATINKERER

1y↑1

Wow! As of today about half of his predictions have already come true.

Matt Younce

To sum up my favorite books and tv shows of Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s contributions- Beyond the Fall of Night also co-wrote by Gregory Benford and Arthur C. Clarke’s mysterious world/ universe. Supposedly they are making a Rama movie which takes it’s basics from the Rama saga another line of his books. He also wrote about the space elevator in 3001 the final odyssey. R.I.P. He’s showing fractal patterns with Sagan and Stephen Hawking R.I.P.

Björn Persson

2y↑5

Artur C. Clarke can predict the future because he is an inspiration to many scientists, so they strive to make it real. We need more Artur C. Clarkes in that aspect.

terry Sullivan

There is a grain of truth in what you say. SF writers are often also scientists and engineers. This creates a sort of feedback loop. On the flip side; they are often very intelligent and well informed about science and engineering. Thus what they see as a likely future sounds like fantasy to the general public. Interesting that this far along in the comments; no one has mentioned that he predicted the Geosynchronous Satellite.

Sapphonymph 820

2y↑3

Elon Musk not only is a visionary like ACC, he actually puts ideas into practice.

David Velazquez

And less Elon Musk.

UteChewb

1y↑1

Some of the things he predicted have arrived. Some are almost here. And others are becoming more reasonable. He missed things, but correctly predicted he would miss them .... which is pretty meta. I think he was winking at us.

Steve Read

2y↑37

A wise man. Rip Arthur C Clark.

Kevin P

In a hundred years from now he'll be reading your comment and saying:
"RIP" Steve Read

Gary Lawrence Murphy

2y↑11

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!” - Niels Bohr

Sapphonymph 820

2y↑1

Great quote!

Rick Hibdon

1y↑1

I've read about everything he wrote. His NON-fiction works are even better than his fiction. I think he's most brilliant work was a short treatise called, "The History of the Communication Satellite (or, How I Lost a Billion Dollars in my Spare Time)"
Yes,Clarke in the 1940's wrote the complete working principles of geo-synchronous communications satellite!

Adam Gorelick

1y↑1

It's interesting to remember that Clarke around this time was working with Stanley Kubrick on what would become 2001: A Space Odyssey. But he seems to predict the Internet and 3D printing. Not too bad, considering how unrewarding and hazardous prognostication of this kind tends to be.

Glyn Brain

2y↑16

Arthur C Clarke & Isaac Asimov shaped my childhood.

Paul

Me too!!

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Jolly Roger

1y↑1

I used to like watching "Arthur C Clarkes Mysterious World" when I was 6 or 7. It was great!

ACB

2y↑8

So Strange to hear a futurist talk about life in a long off time that was 22 years ago.

Robert Green

2y↑1

Brilliant man!! Enjoyed his books.

zer0Bot

Looks like lots of movies and shows have been inspired by this but we might need new predictions very soon

David Laney

1y↑1

One of the best SCIFI writers ever...greatly missed...especially when Hollywood keeps regurgitating basically WWII themed scifi shows (Stars Wars, BSG etc...)...everyone now knows that there were be no manned X-wing fighters or any manned fighters in about 20 years...our time.

Simon Anthony

He did even better than I thought ! What a brain.

Stephen Church

Truly a brilliant man

St. Charles Street

2y↑6

The Man is a genius. Everything he said was scientific, wise and truthful in his speech. No wonder his books are one of the best science fiction novels in literature. His ideas were very beneficial to us today and tomorrow. Wished we all had that knowledge in us!🤓

phosphorescentifungi

2y↑1

Education, knowledge (connecting seemingly unrelated events or ideas), wisdom, imagination, creativity, passion, belief in a thought, and following through. This was Arthur C. Clarke. ALL humans are capable of this to one degree or another. Most are too lazy or give up within three feet of gold.

Peter Harrington

2y↑21

Surprising to me at least that most of his predictions haven't come true yet. Most have been seen to be a bit more tricky than you'd think... suspended animation and terraforming for instance. The thought of training up new animal servants is an 'interesting' one too! One we're hopefully not going to be prioritising.

terry Sullivan

1y↑2

David Brin has explored the concept of enhancing native intelligence in primates and dolphins in several of his book series. But these then become more like colleagues than servants. Elon Musk has set his sights on solving General Artificial Intelligence. That will make Robots possible and change the world. Then we need to re read Asimov. The one will inevitably lead to the other.

The Ghost Painter

@MagePie He wrote extensively about robotics & the positronic brain. He also mentions it in his clip.

MagePie

2y↑1

phosphorescentifungi

2y↑1

@The Ghost Painter The result of big business, demand/reliance for their services, and the end result is, of course, eventually toxic to all life on Earth. Particularly altering the natural progression of cyclical climate changes; deadly chemicals to "improve" crop production is not only in the sky, but also the land and all bodies of water. Obviously not all terraforming (accidental or by design) is going to be a good thing. We humans are not known for thinking ahead and seeing a bigger picture. I agree with you on your points --- all valid --- and this type of terraforming could be considered unforeseen circumstance which now future generations will have to deal with.

The Ghost Painter

2y↑1

@phosphorescentifungi What about the spraying of our planets skies with unspecified chemicals, metals and who knows what else. That's terraforming and not experimental. It's irresponsible and dangerous but whom are they forming the terra for?

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vesa vartiainen

People will not commute, they will communicate. And it gets better: we will have replicators. What a visionnaire.

Desmond Dwyer

2y↑1

If he had predicted that in the future we would have phone in our hand that is a TV a camera a music player that can send pictures and messages around the world and many more things, that would be a prediction 🤔🤔 great writer 🚀🚀

ballhawk387

2y↑2

He did surprisingly well on technological advancements, anticipating communication systems replacing most business travel, the 3-D printer, etc. But it seems everyone missed how little the appearance of our cities and buildings have changed. In fact, the appearance of older cities in Europe that were not destroyed in war have hardly changed in centuries. Also, people tend to extrapolate, whereas reality tends to be more cyclical. I think the technological paradigm is playing itself out, as the religious paradigm did in "Western" societies during the late middle ages to renaissance.

eyesuckle

It is interesting that he was so off base about the future of cities, isn't it? It's as if he just didn't take into account the inertia of bricks, concrete and real estate.

Dennis Chavez

Nailed it! R.I.P. Mr Clark.

Louise Sumrell

2y↑4

He did indeed move to a tropical paradise and conduct his business from there.

SeldimSeen1

All that he predicted came true is about to come true.

Vicki Campbell

1y↑1

My all-time favorite author!! We share a birthday, too. 😊 Great visionary!!

ÉIRE

I was 13 years of age when that was aired.
It's strange to think that 2001 is already distant history.

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