Arthur C. Clarke says his vision of space colonies and intelligent machines may not be all that far-out.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 29 — Leaning forward in his wheelchair, the 83-year-old man speaks deadpan into the tape recorder: “Testing one, two, three. Testing. This is not Arthur Clarke, this is his clone.” As is so often the case with the grand old man of science fiction, it’s a fantasy that might well be a reality in the years to come.
A HOUSTON-BASED company called Encounter 2001 has six strands from his thin gray hair and wants to launch Clarke DNA into space.
“One day, some super civilization may encounter this relic from the vanished species, and I may exist in another time,” he muses. “Move over, Stephen King.”
Clarke is the novelist whose vision underlay Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey” and made it synonymous with our deepest fears and hopes for the future.
Thirty-three years later, as humanity lumbers into the new millennium, he believes his visions of aliens, asteroids, paranoid computers and men on Mars may lie just this side of the moon.
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"Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 29 — Leaning forward in his wheelchair, the 83-year-old man speaks deadpan into the tape recorder: “Testing one, two, three. Testing. This is not Arthur Clarke, this is his clone.” As is so often the case with the grand old man of science fiction, it’s a fantasy that might well be a reality in the years to come.
A HOUSTON-BASED company called Encounter 2001 has six strands from his thin gray hair and wants to launch Clarke DNA into space.
“One day, some super civilization may encounter this relic from the vanished species, and I may exist in another time,” he muses. “Move over, Stephen King.”
Clarke is the novelist whose vision underlay Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey” and made it synonymous with our deepest fears and hopes for the future.
Thirty-three years later, as humanity lumbers into the new millennium, he believes his visions of aliens, asteroids, paranoid computers and men on Mars may lie just this side of the moon.
Want to learn more?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/508031.asp
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"Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed
"The quickest way to a woman's heart, is with a pickaxe." - Cryptkeeper