By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 28 August 2008
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Declan Trezise
Location
Detica
Occupation
NerveCentre manager
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...and not forgetting Arthur C. Clarke's invention of the communication satellite - it didn't take too long for that to turn from sci-fi into reality.
Arthur C. Clarke got me hooked on sci-fi when I read all of his books in the St. Ives, Cornwall library aged 10! It must have been fantastic to know the man - I surely wouldn't have the career I have today without him.
AI is portrayed as the great future-terror in countless sci-fi books, films and comics. Perhaps it is that humans are only too aware of their own physical "sell-by date" and that the evolution of human intelligence will be carried in vessels of a different form.
Excellent article; well written. As a fellow Eagle...
Anonymous
From Neuromancer to Terminator, enough sci-fi has ...
Captain Sensible
...and not forgetting Arthur C. Clarke's invention...
Declan Trezise
I didn't think there was a radio broadcast of the ...
Mark Leeper
Anonymous = Almost every creative technologist and...
Peter Cochrane
Captain = I remember when the first nematode was d...
peter Cochrane
Mark = Hmm, it was rather a long time ago - I may ...
Peter Cochrane
Declan = Agreed on all points! Peter
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