John Stocks writes about...

the late Arthur C. Clarke

At 2 pm UK time Tuesday afternoon I decided to halt my Media lesson to explain to my class Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws. I had no obvious reason for doing so; it was totally out of context. It is not something I have done before. As far as I am aware I didn’t know he was ill, but perhaps I had picked up a subliminal message from the radio. Whatever, the kids are very impressed!!

Copyright © 2008 by John Stocks

Well, I’m impressed, John!

For the benefit of our readers, John supplies the late Arthur C. Clarke’s “three laws”:

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 the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Don