Greetings,

Science visionary Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote Space Odyssey 2001, among other works, has passed over into the afterlife, as you've probably heard.

He used focussed imagination to change life on Earth, just as we do. Only since his results were limited to the material plane, his proof is already solidly affecting peoples' lives, whether they know it or not.  He proved that the method of focussed imagination is not fantasy, because his resulting concepts are used by many in changing astronomy, aerodynamics, and physical life in outer space.

If one man/ mind can have that much effect on lives of people everywhere, perhaps it's easier for us to believe that our work too can make a difference. Let's remember Arthur C. Clarke.....

Bets

Good thought Bets. He was a voice that demonstrated through the power of visionary idealism and science what might be. Even though quite a lot of what he projected has come to be, it's sobering too how much has not.

Many of those guys writing in the 60s had us having long since solved world hunger and on the way to the stars by now. Now things always turn out as they are meant to/need to, but viewed through a certain idealistic and partial lens we've really blown the opportunity of the past forty years - or perhaps what he and the others missed missed was the fact that the world was far more venial than they realised and that higher consciousness is the prime enabler of all.

Meaning that no matter what we can dream up in techological terms our effort will either be wasted by internal friction in the system (greedy attempts by individuals to get ahead at the expense of the other guy) or we'll misuse it.

It's often said we live in such a dangerous time - doomed to extinction if our rate of development of higher consciousness can't catch up with and get ahead of our rate of development of  technology....

Bets,

I really loved Arthur C Clarkes beautiful science fiction writing since I was a small boy and can especially remember reading “The Sands O f Mars” by him as a boy. He was also well known for predicting the communication satellite long before they became a reality.

I am a life long science fiction enthusiast and fan.

This dear soul died at the age of ninety on Sunday.      
Love

Alan