Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
This quotation illustrates a not uncommon problem of scientists trying to explain to sophisticated businessmen or politicians new ideas in science. They have no training in trying to separate the possible from the crackpot ideas or how to take an assertion and ask for the right kinds of evidence to test it. It is probably one of the mosot difficult problems for a politician in assessing new scientific and technological ideas. In this particular case, today we all know that glass fiber can carry an immense amount of digital information, but at the time it was as foreign and idea as if someone said that we can send electricity through the air to light bulbs with no wires. Yet that is just what some scientists have shown was possible recently. Most new science appears impossible and like magic. See {368568}.
- Born: December 16, 1917
- Died: March 19, 2008
- Nationality: British
- Profession: Writer, Inventor, Futurist
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
