An Odyssey continues - Arthur C. Clarke

A wonderful writer, scientist and explorer, Arthur C. Clarke has passed on. I wonder where his journey will take him now.

He created this video on his 90th birthday. His words and wishes should be heard the world over.

I read 2001: A Space Odyssey a very long time ago before seeing the movie adaptation and at the age of 11 made perfect sense to me. I still meet so many people who have no clue to what the movie was about. My explanation goes like this. The movie is broken into three parts. Each one is an attempt to explain the origins of man. Sounds simple? It is.

Follow these links to learn more about Arthur Clarke, his life and work.

The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
Wikipedia - Arthur C. Clarke

Clarke's Three Laws

Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Although not a quote from Clarke, he truly believed and lived his life as this quote from from Charles Kettering:

"My interest is in the future, because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there."

God Speed, Arthur

Andy