Prophets of Science Fiction — S01E04 — Arthur C. Clarke

00:00:05 WHO ARE WE? WHY ARE WE HERE? WHAT IS OUR PLACE IN THE

00:01:51 20,000 ARE DEAD. 24-YEAR-OLD ASPIRING WRITER ARTHUR C. CLARKE ESCAPES TO THE

00:03:52 FLIGHT. ARTHUR C. CLARKE IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF SCIENCE

00:05:18 MANUALS FOR HUMAN EVOLUTION, IN A SENSE. Narrator: THE ALIENS,

00:07:17 SO GRAVITY IS SOMETHING WE DON'T TEND TO THINK ABOUT. BUT THAT REALLY IS ONE OF THE

00:09:02 WE ARE THE ONLY LIVING ORGANISM INS THIS GALAXY. I THINK THERE'S THOUSANDS OF US,

00:10:45 PROPHESIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN REALIZED. AN INVENTION OF SUCH PROFOUND

00:12:58 IN 1945, ARTHUR C. CLARKE INVENTED THE COMMUNICATION SATELLITE.

00:14:48 ATEMPBT TO UNDERSTAND HUMANITY'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE. SPACE TELESCOPES ARE SATELLITES

00:16:29 SPACE NETWORK. Narrator: THE KEPPLER SATELLITE IS ELEGANT IN ITS

00:18:09 CATHEDRALS. THEY KNEW THAT WHEN THEY BUILT

00:20:02 Narrator: CLARKE AND MARILYN SEPARATE AFTER A FEW MONTHS. THE NEXT TIME CLARKE FALLS IN

00:22:16 REPRESENTATION OF THE EPIPHAIES OF THE MIND. 2001 IS A GOLD STANDARD OF

00:24:08 THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO PARK THE VIRGIN MOTHER SHIP. THE PASSENGERS GET TO BE AMONG

00:25:48 IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, ALMOST ANYONE CAN GO INTO SPACE AND HOW EXCITING IS THAT?

00:27:53 BE THE SATELLITE. 22,000 MILES UP. CENTRIFUGAL FORCE ALLOWS THE

00:29:38 I'M COMMITTED TO BUILDING AN ELEVATOR TO SPACE BECAUSE ONCE I SAW IT, THAT WAS IT.

00:31:22 WE NAMED HIM CLARKE FROM THE VERY FIRST TIME IN HONOR OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE.

00:33:25 ALL THE GREAT SCIENTISTS OF THE PAST CENTURY WENT INTO THE REALM OF THE IMPOSSIBLE IN ORDER TO

00:35:01 CLARKE EVOLVES THIS PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY INTO A SUPER COMPUTER.

00:37:02 THE MAN BEHIND IBM'S MOST FAMOUS BREAKTHROUGH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

00:38:38 DISASTROUS DOWNSIDE TO ADVANCED COMPUTER. BUT IN 1984, CLARKE FALLS ILL

00:40:37 IT SPACE GUARD AFTER THE ASTEROID WARNING SYSTEM CLARKE PROPHESIES IN RENDEZVOUS WITH

00:42:32 OF SCIENCE. HE WASN'T AFRAID TO