Many scientists are trying to explain how science fiction writers can predict the future.How M. Robertson, a twenty-four years before the accident, was able to exactly describe the death of "Titanic" and even a little mistake with the name of the ship, calling it a "Titanium" ... How Ivan Efremov's novel "Andromeda" was able to describe the "GreatRing, "which powerful Hubble discovered a decade later?How Cleve Cartmill able to describe technical device yet developed the atomic bomb, because of what was called for questioning by the FBI?Many see this ability mystical gift, which in the past century did the human prophets and saints, and now - just a science fiction writer.But the most prominent predictor writer Arthur C. Clarke became ...
who invented ORBIT satellites
In addition, Clark is one of the pillars of the fiction of the twentieth century, he has authored a number of outstanding inventions.For example, few people know that the place satellites in geostationary orbit, and use them to communicate Clark came up just in 1945, when an exploration of space could speak only as fiction.Ten years later, when satellites came into our lives, Clark suggested using them to predict weather.So the ability to speak by satellite phone, watch TV and know the weather tomorrow we owe it to Clark.
self-fulfilling prophecy
But the future is interested in the great writer not only in literature: Clark also known as a futurist, he predicted the landing on the moon, the catastrophe in Chernobyl, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and even the date of September 11th: on that day in his novel,written in the early 1970s, the Earth befalls the alien attack!
And in 1968, Clarke wrote: "Our descendants in 2001 could fall to the future deadly boredom, where the main problem in life is to decide which of the several hundred channels to choose."
Just for 2001 Clark promised to begin the study of Saturn's rings.But humanity a little delayed: it happened three years later.
2003 Clark called the year of the beginning of the exploration of Mars, and really, it was then launched two Mars travel.
In 2007, Clark has promised to launch a new generation space telescope.But scientists back "pumped up": it will be launched only in 2013 ...
a new ice age?
And what about the great futurist promised us in the coming years?
2011 will be marked by the fact that the film will remove the biggest animal in the world: the 75-meter octopus hiding in the Mariana Trench.
In 2019, Clark projected on the ice cap of the North Pole powerful meteor fall, and cause it to fall tsunamis cause considerable damage to the coasts of Greenland and Canada.
first humans will land on Mars in 2021-m, where they were waiting for some nasty surprises.
In the 2023-m become a reality, "Jurassic Park" - will begin the cloning of dinosaurs, birds and small partial replacement of guard dogs despite their aggressiveness caused by accidents.
in 2036, China catch up and overtake the US in terms of gross domestic product.And four years later, in 2040 m will be invented "Universal Replicator," based on nanotechnology, which will be able to create objects of any complexity - you just raw information matrix.Industry and agriculture are not needed and people will not work!Begins a rapid development of arts, entertainment, and education.
By 2051 the largest nursing home will be a settlement on the Moon, as the majority of pensioners will be spelled low gravity.
In 2090 starts a new ice age, and people will start to do everything possible to re-recreate the greenhouse effect.
FAN possible futures
Arthur C. Clarke himself about his predictions say this: "Personally, I have always resisted any attempt to stick a label me a prophet.I would prefer another term - extrapolator.All I was trying to do - is to imagine a fan of possible futures.But any thing remarkable foresight could turn into absurdity due to some unexpected invention or event! ยป
Some believe that in one of his forecasts, he just made a mistake on the day of the century in 2017, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was to become one of the firstGuests of the hotel on the space orbit.March 19, 2008 Clark died ...
But who knows what opportunities will have a genetic engineering to the second decade of this century?Perhaps clone Arthur C. Clarke would not be denied the title of prophet? ..
Anna Krasnova
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