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Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for "2001: A Space Odyssey" to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90, associates have said.
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90
When James Law wakes up in his Hong Kong apartment, the scene that greets him is not the ring of smog that often blankets the city, but a 15-meter wide panoramic view of a Thai beach, streamed in real time from a friend's beachfront home and projected to the walls of his apartment.
Advances in the construction of metamaterials will allow us to build composites with properties unlike anything offered by nature, creating the prospect of invisibility technologies. What are the practical and ethical considerations we need to consider in developing such materials?
I wouldn't call myself a Luddite, exactly. I have a CD player, a TV and a microwave oven, just like any other self-respecting American. But I draw the line at things like Palm Pilots and Blackberri...
Sure, the information superhighway sounds as inevitable as it does alluring. But don't count your bandwidths before they're wired. Modern industrial history is littered with technological revolutio...
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