Official Google Blog: An appreciation of Arthur C. Clarke
Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, and Bill Coughran, Senior VP, Engineering
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Clarke's Third Law)
How do you summarize a man like Arthur C. Clarke? The 90-year-old futurist and science fiction writer, who described himself as a "serial processor", died yesterday in Sri Lanka, his long-time home. Among the authors of the Golden Age of the genre in the 1950s, Clarke is a giant whose creative ideas have found purchase in the real world -- most notably the notion of a synchronous communication satellite, which he envisioned in 1945, but which did not become a reality for 20 more years.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Clarke's Third Law)
How do you summarize a man like Arthur C. Clarke? The 90-year-old futurist and science fiction writer, who described himself as a "serial processor", died yesterday in Sri Lanka, his long-time home. Among the authors of the Golden Age of the genre in the 1950s, Clarke is a giant whose creative ideas have found purchase in the real world -- most notably the notion of a synchronous communication satellite, which he envisioned in 1945, but which did not become a reality for 20 more years.
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