Arthur C. Clarke predicts that people will each have their own computer - GIF

[bruce.desertrat]

ALL of the recent shows I've attended in the last few years I got emailed tickets with links to stick them in my iPhone wallet.

I think Clarke was probably more surprised at how the smartphone changed society than widespread personal computers.

World-wide reach of a personal info lookup/maps/guided maps/camera/entertainment and oh yea the quaint old function 'telephone' in your pocket is quite a thing,.

Makes watching old reruns of police procedurals seem really quaint...saw a 'Streets of San Francisco' episode a while back where Karl Malden had to find a phone booth to call in to HQ to pass along a clue.

[Floradawg]

ALL of the recent shows I've attended in the last few years I got emailed tickets with links to stick them in my iPhone wallet.

I think Clarke was probably more surprised at how the smartphone changed society than widespread personal computers.

World-wide reach of a personal info lookup/maps/guided maps/camera/entertainment and oh yea the quaint old function 'telephone' in your pocket is quite a thing,.

Makes watching old reruns of police procedurals seem really quaint...saw a 'Streets of San Francisco' episode a while back where Karl Malden had to find a phone booth to call in to HQ to pass along a clue.

I can't help but wonder what he would have thought of the sadness of what was done to Sri Lanka. He loved that country and made it his home for the final years of his life.

[Duke_of_URL]

Where have all the "futurists," like Mr. Clarke, gone? There were once so many of them... perhaps we've reached the end of our "future?"