#futurist

gring@diasp.org

Every year on #April #22, #Earth #Day marks the #anniversary of the #birth of the modern #environmental #movement in 1970. We are honoring Earth Day with the #futurist #Buckminster #Fuller (1895-1983), an American #architect, #systems #theorist, #author, #designer, #inventor and #philosopher. Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on #renewable #sources of #energy, such as #solar- and #wind-derived #electricity.

Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known #geodesic #dome; #carbon #molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic #spheres.

I just copied this from *https://karsh.org/buckminster-fuller-2/ :)

danie10@squeet.me

Arthur C. Clarke (Sci-Fi Writer) predicting ebooks, remote working, etc back in 1976

In 1976, AT&T and MIT held a conference on futurism and technology, attended by scientists, theorists, academics and futurists. This interview with Clarke during this conference is remarkably prescient—especially about the evolution of communications systems for the next 30+ years.

The interview was conducted for an episode of a Bell System news magazine, but this is the raw interview footage.

Watch at Interview with author/futurist Arthur C. Clarke, from an AT&T-MIT Conference, 1976

#technology #futurist #predictions #arthurcclarke #scifi

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Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author and futurist, crossed paths with the scientists of the Bell System on numerous occasions. In 1945, he concurrently, ...


https://gadgeteer.co.za/arthur-c-clarke-sci-fi-writer-predicting-ebooks-remote-working-etc-back-1976