Arthur Clarke in '76 predicting the rise of Google, Facebook, Skype, Twitter

[zebonaut]

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He was spot on

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and the Apple Watch

[Tom_Foolery]

1. But he didn't predict LOLCATS...

[nationalize the fed]

2. talk about "viral"

This video had 5 or 6 hundred views yesterday morning.

It was submitted to Reddit in the early evening.

The post received 3,600+ upvotes and 590+ comments as of 9pm EST.

The Video now has 91,000+ views on Youtube and it's getting 5 thousand+ views per hour right now. Amazing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2uyp4z/arthur_c_clarke_accurately_describes_the_21st/

[jimlup]

3. As a lifelong SF reader I've long been a fan of Clark's

He was a forward thinker. I hope the space elevator idea he proposed in '76's "The Foundation of Paradise" comes into existence.

[sarge43]

4. The geostationary communications satellites

He didn't conceive the idea, but he took it from pipe dream to possible, given the technology in 1945

[jimlup]

5. Yeah - though he is given credit for it in the urban mythology version...

Still he deserves much credit for having the vision to see that it would be a significantly important idea.