RIP Arthur Clarke

I doubt there's anyone who thinks seriously about the future who hasn't read Arthur C Clarke-- probably a lot of Clarke, as he wrote about a hundred books and an uncountable number of essays. Now the Guardian reports,

Arthur C Clarke, the pioneering science fiction author and technological visionary best known for the novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died at his home in Sri Lanka, aged 90.

Clarke, who wrote more than 100 books in a career spanning seven decades, died of heart failure linked to the post-polio syndrome that had kept him wheelchair-bound for years.

His forecasts often earned him derision from peers and social commentators.

But although his dreams of intergalactic space travel and colonisation of nearby planets were never realised in his lifetime, Clarke's predictions of a host of technological breakthroughs were uncannily accurate.

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