Re: Arthur C. Clark died

Yes they both wrote about and in a sense built the future
they were writing about. Are there any current SF writers
who can claim the same?


>Yeah, I think the patents that he, Heinlein, Asimov,
Smith, Leinster and
>Simak could have filed would equal the entire GDP of the
United States.
>
>On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Larry Lyons
<larryclyonsgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes definitely. Although Childhood's End is always
been a difficult book
>> for me. You know he could have made billions on
satellite technology. He
>> invented the basic concepts behind communications
satellites, but never
>> tried to collect a cent on it.
>>
>> The world is a bit closer and narrower tonight.
>> 

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Off the top of my head, without many specifics, I would say
Gibson,
Stephenson, Drake, Sterling, Brin, Vernor and Barnes, Moon
and Weber are
holding up their own.

I don't always _like_ the inventions when I first read about
them (the
Gargoyles from Snow Crash for example), but over time, they
seem less
freakish, and more possible.

Imagine a wearable video camera, hd quality, mounted to a
camera person's
shoulder or head, that pointed where wanted, with hand
controls to zoom and
pan, steadycam built in, and an eyepiece (semitransparent)
for monitoring.

I would way prefer this to the huge shoulder mounted cameras
I see all over
Boston as I move around. The big cameras AFFECT the story in
some ways. And
they are too big to be everywhere. The gargoyles are the
farthest push of
this idea I have seen. The reporter in a Steve Perry book
(maybe 97th step)
was a lesser but far out version as well.

So, yes, I think we still have long distance thinkers.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Larry Lyons
<larryclyonsgmail.com> wrote:

> Yes they both wrote about and in a sense built the
future they were
> writing about. Are there any current SF writers who can
claim the same?
>


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