06-30-2016, 12:18 PM
I'm reminded of Arthur C Clarke's Profiles of the Future, a slim volume that goes down through history, pointing out how one great mind after another declared something to be impossible, only to have it later come true.
If I recall correctly, Von Braun said space travel was impossible; and Edison (or was it Ford?) said the aeroplane was just a passing fad. At the very end, Clarke went out on a limb to say that, to his mind, an invisibility cloak was impossible, but granted that he might very well be proven wrong just like so many before him.
I read the 1978(?) version. Clarke put out a revised version around 2000, updating his thoughts.
If I recall correctly, Von Braun said space travel was impossible; and Edison (or was it Ford?) said the aeroplane was just a passing fad. At the very end, Clarke went out on a limb to say that, to his mind, an invisibility cloak was impossible, but granted that he might very well be proven wrong just like so many before him.
I read the 1978(?) version. Clarke put out a revised version around 2000, updating his thoughts.
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