{"id":53845,"date":"2020-12-04T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=53845"},"modified":"2020-12-04T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:24:57","slug":"8-predictions-arthur-c-clarke-got-right-decades-ago-by-patrick-ranasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/8-predictions-arthur-c-clarke-got-right-decades-ago-by-patrick-ranasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"8 predictions Arthur C. Clarke got right decades ago \u2013 by Patrick Ranasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">8 predictions Arthur C. Clarke got right decades ago \u2013 by\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Patrick Ranasinghe<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53846 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/8-predictions-Arthur-C.-Clarke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">8 predictions Arthur C. Clarke got right decades ago<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZPcSDXokdE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"m_-3668174875712720000c-headdek\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;2001&#8221; author Arthur C. Clarke brought us some frightening visions of the future that have yet to come to pass. But he also nailed an awful lot about 21st-century life<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Where home computers were headed 1<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Speaking at an AT&amp;T\/MIT conference in 1976, &#8220;2001: A Space Odyssey&#8221; author Arthur C. Clarke shared his vision of the future. He described the ability to communicate with the outside world using HD screens attached to keyboards.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In other words, he accurately saw where the home computers just being introduced at the time were headed. He failed to mention the dominant position that\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/cat-rap-yo-dawg-an-ode-to-online-kitty-videos-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/cat-rap-yo-dawg-an-ode-to-online-kitty-videos-everywhere\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE2oeV-WPuUQ-vejD44qMBfPPtTJQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">cat videos<\/a>\u00a0would come to occupy on these screens, however<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Related article:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/arthur-c-clarke-describes-the-21st-century-in-detail-in-1976\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/arthur-c-clarke-describes-the-21st-century-in-detail-in-1976\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEPSOmYlHibvdBbv6fJX1wUUF4yJQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Arthur C. Clarke describes the 21st century in detail&#8230; in 1976<\/a><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Skype\/FaceTime 2<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Like many futurists frustrated by the tyranny of tinny audio over phone lines as their primary means of real-time communication, Arthur C. Clarke envisioned video calls being commonplace in the future. Decades later, Skype and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-engineer-details-facetimes-history-including-original-codename\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-engineer-details-facetimes-history-including-original-codename\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCfOMnIhRdVAkY0Gm8_kkZLxXm2A\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">FaceTime<\/a><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-engineer-details-facetimes-history-including-original-codename\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-engineer-details-facetimes-history-including-original-codename\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCfOMnIhRdVAkY0Gm8_kkZLxXm2A\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">\u00a0made the inevitability a reality, though nerds in the know (with decent early broadband) were video-chatting via\u00a0Cu-SeeMe\u00a0in the 1990s.<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CU-SeeMe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CU-SeeMe&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6XdpLTH3RvRyX0fSCfknvLBbhSg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">The Internet 3<\/a><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CU-SeeMe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CU-SeeMe&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6XdpLTH3RvRyX0fSCfknvLBbhSg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Decades before the Internet became a thing, Arthur C. Clarke had a spot-on vision of connected devices &#8220;which will enable us to send much more information to our friends&#8230;to exchange pictorial information, graphical information, data, books and so forth.&#8221;\u00a0 Impressive, even if he failed to predict\u00a0Tinder.<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/conan-goes-on-tinder-gets-creepy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/conan-goes-on-tinder-gets-creepy\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_6NSfkymyJQExUpqUYTin6KC3Ug\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Email 4<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/conan-goes-on-tinder-gets-creepy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/conan-goes-on-tinder-gets-creepy\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_6NSfkymyJQExUpqUYTin6KC3Ug\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">In 1976, there was the telephone and snail mail, but nothing that existed only in the digital ether on servers or systems until you checked it (aka email). Yet Clarke was savvy enough to foresee not only where real-time communication was headed, but how mail would go digital, too. He probably foresaw\u00a0Snapchat<\/a><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFtOiSTmK3faCsvq60xuJTFjHgqtg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">\u00a0as well, but that prediction deleted itself 10 seconds later<\/a><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFtOiSTmK3faCsvq60xuJTFjHgqtg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><b>Google 5<\/b><\/a><\/span><b><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFtOiSTmK3faCsvq60xuJTFjHgqtg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Arthur C. Clarke imagined a &#8220;machine&#8221; that would search a &#8220;central library&#8221; to bring you just the information you were looking for, be it news, info on airline flights, sports scores, whatever. If we can grant that the Internet is Clarke&#8217;s library, then it would seem that his machine actually turned out to be the algorithms behind\u00a0Google, Bing and other search engines.<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-queen-of-pop-is-bringing-a-new-music-video-to-snapchat\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFtOiSTmK3faCsvq60xuJTFjHgqtg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><b>Mobile phones 6<\/b><\/a><b><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGLQApfyFaZHhyOsDqv1sKX3jYIKQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Not only did Arthur C. Clarke predict mobile phones, which is not so amazing because the technology was already in existence at the time, he also saw how mobile devices would &#8220;restructure society,&#8221; a process that we&#8217;re in the midst of right now.<\/a><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGLQApfyFaZHhyOsDqv1sKX3jYIKQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Telecommuting 7<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGLQApfyFaZHhyOsDqv1sKX3jYIKQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Arthur C. Clarke imagined that by this point in history all travel would be for pleasure and we&#8217;d all be telecommuting. The\u00a0digital commute\u00a0is not quite so universal yet, but\u00a0 it&#8217;s been a reality for many of us for years already.<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-voice-search-siri-cortana-teen-study\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGLQApfyFaZHhyOsDqv1sKX3jYIKQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Smartwatches 8<\/a><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/marissa-mayer-wouldnt-approve-of-these-spots-ive-worked-from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/marissa-mayer-wouldnt-approve-of-these-spots-ive-worked-from\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607177115910000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFmLsgiDgBgKn8LxfNF_DRf57EwTw\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Like many others in the 1970s, Arthur C. Clarke still clearly longed for a vintage Dick Tracy radio watch. Almost 40 years later, they&#8217;re here, but it&#8217;s\u00a0not clear\u00a0that many people are still longing to talk into their wrists. I still think Clarke would be wowed by how easy it is to order an Uber using an Android Wear device, though.<\/a><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Patrick Ranasinghe<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"m_-3668174875712720000MsoHyperlink\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 predictions Arthur C. Clarke got right decades ago \u2013 by\u00a0Patrick Ranasinghe 8 predictions Arthur C. Clarke got right decades ago &#8220;2001&#8221; author Arthur C. Clarke brought us some frightening visions of the future that have yet to come to pass. But he also nailed an awful lot about 21st-century life. Where home computers were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31226,1098],"class_list":{"0":"post-53845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-arthur-c-clarke","9":"tag-patrick-ranasinghe","10":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>8 predictions Arthur C. Clarke got right decades ago \u2013 by Patrick Ranasinghe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;2001&quot; author Arthur C. 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