Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the originator of the idea of geostationary satellites has diedClark's three laws of prediction:
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.Someone posted the second law as a comment to Al Upton's blog about his year 3 student's blogs being shut down by the South Australian Education Department. See Order for Closure
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.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
Education should be more like science fiction - the youth will spend more time in the future than the bureaucratic old farts, lets give them a chance to invent it.
1 comment:
And that's why they call it a web!
Amazing that a quote I found on a Star Trek bbs I frequent, and seemed relevant to Al Upton's dilemma, would then get requoted in several other places, also in supporting of Al. Very exciting.
Regards,
Ian McLean
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