Arthur C. Clarke, 1917 - 2008

Before there was Ray Kurzweil, there was Arthur C. Clarke; author and visionary.  Today it seems appropriate to share another short excerpt from his 1965 essay collection, Voices From The Sky.

“I would not care to predict how many of today’s professions will survive a hundred years from now.  What happened to the buggywhip makers, the crossing sweepers, the scriveners, the stone breakers of yesteryear?  (I mention the last because I can just remember them, hammering away at piles of rock in the country lanes of my childhood.) Most of our present occupations will follow these into oblivion, as the transistor inherits the earth...”

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Posted by George on 03/18/08 at 07:08 PM
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