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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future
https://www.bbc.com/videos/crezjvd55gro
#ArthurCClarke #prediction #futurology #technology #evolution
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J'ai fini bien déçue. La matérialité de l'univers imaginaire n'est pas tenue jusqu'au bout, ça se termine en vertige psychédélique... qui pourrait aussi bien être un récit de rêve, d'hallucination ou de trip bien chanmé – sur plus des 150 pages finales. Ce n'est pas ce que je cherche dans la science-fiction.
J'en étais venue à attendre une sorte de "Rendez-vous avec Sitive"... Mais mieux vaut écarter la comparaison. Et relire Rama (même sous la hideusissime couv de l'exemplaire qui fut jadis le mien)
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#VielenDankBücherschrank für »Against the Machine. On the Unmaking of Humanity« (2025) von #PaulKingsnorth
Die Eröffnungszitate:
»Die Vorstellung fällt mir leicht, dass die nächste große Spaltung der Welt zwischen denen verläuft, die als Geschöpfe leben wollen, und denen, die als Maschinen leben wollen.«
— #WendellBerry»Gut möglich, dass unsere Bestimmung auf diesem Planeten nicht darin besteht, einen Gott zu verehren, sondern einen zu erschaffen.«
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It pisses me off that Elon Shitstain used Arthur C. Clarke speaking about the communications satellite, which he proposed in his writings, for a Starlink ad.
#superbowl #Spacex #shit #ArthurCClarke #superbowlads #TV #superbowl60
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https://open.substack.com/pub/blairproductions32/p/two-songs-about-space-spirit-and?r=98j2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#davidbowie #spaceoddity #arthurcclarke #johnnyjblair #mellotron #stylophone #majortom #singersongwriter #starman #mikegarson #sun #uhura #captainkirk #nichellenichols #williamshatner #psychedelic #cosmos #god #angels #astronauts #spirit #twilightzone #cslewis #space #sciencefiction #prairieprince #chrisvonsneidern #robinmackey #thetubes #toddrundgren #xtc -
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ajcain/115831036668298738
Actually, I would be interested in any examples (other than Kasner & Newman 1940 and Le Lionnais 1946, 1948) of aesthetic judgements of Euler's identity \(e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\) before 1988, when it appeared (if the form \(e^{i\pi} = -1\)) in a questionnaire about beautiful results posed David Wells in the ‘Mathematical Intelligencer’. It was rated highest by respondents to the questionnaire, after which — possibly in part because of which? — it seems to have been much more commonly called beautiful.
In the four decades between Le Lionnais's essays and Wells's questionnaire, the closest approach to aesthetic praise of Euler’s equation that I located is a passing reference in Arthur C. Clarke's (1917–2008) novel ‘The Fountains of Paradise’ (1979), in which a character considers it to be ‘profound yet beautifully simple’.
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I made the mistake of attempting to read Rama II.
I remember liking the original Rama novel. I gave it some grace because it's a Big Dumb Space Object novel despite being written by Clarke who I think we can all agree is objectively not very good at the craft.
But Rama II, boy, what an interminable slog full of just oddly-conceived stereotype characters. Takes a quarter of the book to just get off earth. Too much (bad) dialogue. Yuck.
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#CallForPapers for #OnlineConference: Technologies of the Fantastic
The Centre for #Fantasy and the Fantastic is excited to announce the call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2026, to be held online on 13-15 May, with the theme of ‘The Technologies of the Fantastic’.
Many addendums have been made over the years the famous third law of #ArthurCClarke that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’ (‘Technology and the Future’), from Professor Barry Gehm’s corollary, ‘any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced’ (Analog) to the statement of #TerryPratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen in The Science of #Discworld that ‘#Technology works because whoever built it in the first place figured out enough of the rules of the universe to make the technology do what was required of it … With #magic, in contrast, things work because people want them to’. Such discourse leaves us asking what, if anything, fundamentally separates the technological from the magical? #SFF
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/16/gifcon-2026-the-technologies-of-the-fantastic
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#ArthurCClarke 's prose could most charitably be described as unassuming, and his attempts to write human characters and politics are not very convincing, and yet this story of first contact encountering a massive alien spacecraft still, somehow, really works: Rama is such a memorable, mysterious, awe inspiring creation. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Please BOOST!
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or see the full collection here:
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Born this Day:
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. His most famous book is 2001 A Space Odyssey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#Literature
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArthurCClarke #Intelligence
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
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(Nelson, being an astronaut, was relativistically slightly younger than he 'ought to have been' and his high speed travel may have caused him to pick up some huon particles.)
#IDoJ #magic #technology #TimeLordTechnology #DoctorWho
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
