Re: A view of powerful cities in dated history, as seen through Science Fiction - A C Clarke
David Lesher <[email protected]>
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a425couple <[email protected]> writes: >It seems to me that in a great number of areas >Arthur C. Clarke was great at predicting the future >(geosynchronous orbit satellites etc.). And the end of Long-Distance; we can say it still exists but in genenal it's pennies.. >"not by chance alone could those mighty ships have come >to rest so precisely over New York, London, Moscow, Canberra, >Rome, Capetown, Tokyo..." >It is interesting to me how he totally skips over >China, India, or any Middle Eastern power, yet to be. >But then, this was just one sentence in a fictional >story. When written, how economically big & public was China? And India was just a possession of the British empire. (But then, so was SA.)` -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433