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#1 2003-12-07 05:19:55
- Rxke
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Re: Humanity will survive Information deluge - By Arthur C. Clarke
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/74591/1
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One could argue he's to 'blame' for all this :;): :the first one to envision Geostationary sats, and thus world-wide communications as we know it today.
Personally, I think Sir A.C. Clarke is one of world's biggest socio-cultural thinkers... For instance, he described the global disaster of a collapse of the information highway in his second Rama novel, years before the internet was as important as it is now. Only yesterday, a small computer glitch on Nasdaq caused quite some havoc...
Electronic information is becoming more important by the day. The way we handle it in the longer term will be... Well, read the article.
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