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futurist Arthur C. Clarke, from an AT&T-MIT Conference, 1976

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Rainbow Crash

Feb 06, 2015 at 02:39PM EST

Any sufficiently informed prediction is indistinguishable from prophecy.

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Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author and futurist, crossed paths with the scientists of the Bell System on numerous occasions. In 1945, he concurrently, but independently, conceived of the first concept for a communications satellite at the same time as Bell Labs scientist, John Robinson Pierce. Pierce too, was a science fiction writer.

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