(January 2, 2023 at 1:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 2, 2023 at 12:32 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Thank you for this quote; it obviates any reservations that I had in viewing Clarke as a futurist crank, perhaps the High Priest of all of them.
Yeah, he predicted geosynchronous satellites, robotic surgery, medical telemetry, the internet, spam, digital porn, and telecommuting. What a crank.
Boru
I still think that he was a crank, just not an "infallible" one.