Old Weird Ward
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
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Yesterday was real nice - a bit cool in the AM, but in the afternoon, the temp got up to about 67F. Today was bit cooler - low of 37F in the early AM, about 62F in the afternoon. Tomorrow is going to be a bit cooler still at about 28F in the AM, and maybe up to 50F in the afternoon.
Wonnnnderful.
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Whilst digging through a box left over from The Great Move, I found a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's volume of predictions "Report on Planet Three". Most of these essays date from the 1950's, a time when Mr. Clarke was President of the British Interplanetary Society.
He touched, lightly, on a technology which has been revolutionary in form and impact over the last thirty years - the computer. I'm sure that during the 1950's and early 1960's, it never occured to him that something like the current crop of personal computers and that marvel known as the Internet would ever be possible.
Come to think of it, the only one who even came close to the concept at that time was Robert Heilein, and he wasn't real close, but he was within shouting distance.
Clarke and Heinlein were, and are, the premier prognosticators of the 20th Century. Heinlein did a couple of books on the look and feel of the future, and commented on the then-current society in a couple of more books. I have in mind "Starship Troopers", in which he commented on the similarities of raising puppies and children, and on a justice system in paralysis and denial.
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