Arthur C. Clarke's Three Laws of Prediction


	Arthur C. Clarke's Three Laws of Prediction

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2-21-2009 2:08 AM

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2-21-2009 12:07 PM

tanyamm

How true.

3-27-2009 5:10 AM

miad20

well said, especially the third law...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/75cb3333-a6b1-4420-91bd-8e650451d7b4/D6E2C552-2352-41A9-B4A7-855BBCF15451/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/11/clarkes-three-laws-of-prediction.html" href="http://sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/11/clarkes-three-laws-of-prediction.html" style="font-size: 11px;">sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/11/clarkes-three-laws-of-prediction.html"><P><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke"><IMG border="0" alt="Arthur C. Clarke" src="http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:IwBspcmWTCLJEM:http://atheistempire.com/greatminds/img/Clarke_Arthur.jpeg" /></A><A title="Arthur C. Clarke" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</A> formulated the following three "laws" of prediction: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sciencefictionobserver.blogspot.com/2006/11/clarkes-three-laws-of-prediction.html"><OL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><DIV>When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.</DIV><BR /></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><DIV>The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.</DIV><BR /></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.</LI></OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D6E2C552-2352-41A9-B4A7-855BBCF15451/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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