If you've not heard, Arthur C. Clarke -- one of the hallowed masters of Science Fiction and an frequent unintentional-but-uncanny predictor of Science Reality -- passed away today at age 90 . If you're not familiar, this is the man who gave us 2001: A Space Odyssey and its successors. This is the man who dreamed up geostationary satellites before the rocket scientists did.Athur gave us Clarke's three laws of prediction :
1.) 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.
2.) The only way of discovering th...