Sir Arthur C Clark…

Sir Arthur C Clark has passed away (news item , obituary, wiki).

Through his various works he not only wrote fiction but speculated about the future, and his speculations were some among those that have sparked the imagination of many scientists (geostationary communication satellites for example).

So in a way to remember him, here are “Clarke’s three laws”:

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.”