arthur c clarke
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Hey, Great, Another Goddamned Show About a Deadly Pandemic
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A mysterious plague appears out of nowhere, the world is completely unprepared for it, and countless people die. If this sounds like an appealing premise for a TV series that is not The Walking Dead, The Stand, The Strain, Containment, The Last Ship, and all the other…
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The Most Intriguing Theories About 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick’s influential classic 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 50 this week. One of its most enduring qualities is how open to interpretation it is – over the years, the enigmatic film has inspired some fascinating (and/or delightfully batshit crazy) theories about what it all means. This is exactly what the director intended.
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2001 Inspired This Table Supported By Toppling Monolith Dominos
How’s your furniture budget for 2014 looking? Obscenely well-funded? If that’s the case, you might want to seriously consider this eye-catching Megalith Table. Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s iconic science fiction series, the table’s glass top appears to be supported by a series of domino-like monoliths frozen in a perpetual topple.
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicted The Internet And Teleworking In 1964
Nostradamus? Pah! A mere vague amateur. The late, great Arthur C. Clarke was not only more of a man of science, he was also a man capable of pretty accurately predicting the future. We’ve previously noted his ability to predict GPS in 1956. Just eight years later, he was nailing the concepts of teleworking and…