Arthur C. Clarke, former Space Cadet of the British Interplanetary Society, and Science Fiction writer on the occasion of his 90th orbit around the sun. He is currently wheelchair bound, and sleeping 15 hours a day. But this does not keep his mind from roaming the Universe.
“I have a great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophesy.”
Transcript and short article on spaceref.com
Sixty two years ago Arthur C. Clarke of the British Interplanetary Society sent a letter to the editor titled Peacetime Uses for V2 which was published in the 1945 February issue of the Wireless World magazine suggesting the use of Geostationary Satellites for the instant global communications.
