Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer and thinker, passed away last March 18th in Sri Lanka, his long time adopted home. He is the writer of super famous books as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "The Deep Range" among others. His main contributions are the worlds he envisioned as futurist based on premises other than our own, providing us with deep ideas about the future of the human way of life, the roll of science and technology in society, also deep philosophical considerations regarding the interactions of us humans and the machines we are able to build.
As one blogger wrote about his death:
We owe him gratitude not only for his remarkable talent for cerebral entertainment, but also his exceptional ability to make us think.
I fully agree.
On his 90th birthday, last December, he gave us this remarkable video full -as always- of foward-thinking ideas.
Moisés Jafet Cornelio-Vargas
About Moisés
Physicists, award-winning technologist, parallel entrepreneur, consultant and proud father born in the Dominican Republic.
Interested in HPC, Deep Learning, Semantic Web, Internet Global High Scalability Apps, InfoSec, eLearning, General Aviation, Formula 1, Classical Music, Jazz, Sailing and Chess.
Founder of pluio.com and hospedio.com.
Author of the Sci-fi upcoming novel Breedpeace and co-author in dozens of publications.
Co-founder of MunicipiosAlDia.com, Jalalio Media Consultants and a number of other start-ups.
Former professor and Key-note speaker in conferences and congresses all across the Americas and Europe.
Proud member of the Microchip No.1 flying towards Interestellar space on board NASA's Stardust Mission, as well as member of Fundación Municipios al Día, Fundación Loyola, Fundación Ciencias de la Documentación and a number of other non-for profit, professional organizations, Open Source projects and Chess communities around the world.
All opinions here are his own's and in no way associated with his business interests or collaborations with third-parties.