BBC Horizon (1964) with Arthur C. Clarke (Part 2 of 2)
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In 1964, Arthur C. Clarke makes some scarily accurate predictions about the future we now know, even to the latest breakthroughs of today and things to come.
The BBC have confirmed this episode as Series 1 Episode 6 - "The Knowledge Explosion" - broadcast on 21st Sept 1964
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Just increadible how much we take for granted in the present day. Watching this video puts an increadible amount of perspective on it all. Incredible work, mr clark.
@ 3:40 Mr Clarke predicts 3D printers.
Excellent! This man was far beyond his time!
wow he is right on the money...he did not miss one of our developments today. this guy is off the charts he got everything right
He predicted cryonics!
He was a very clear speaker. Not relying on any speech crutches during pauses.
Richard Feynman outdid Arthur C. Clarke to the power of 2 at least. In 1959, Richard Feynman outlined Clarke's "replicator" in a talk titled, "there's plenty of room at the bottom." Richard essentially describes constructing everything by being able to place individual atoms in their proper places. Whenever this happens((I predict within the year or two), nanomanufacturing alone will make all technologies concieved between ten to a thousand times better in quality, and make all kinds of technologies possible that weren't before. And, oh yes, nanomanufacturing will do all this for the price of potatoes as Clarke correctly points out. But, that's not all Richard Feynman foresaw . . .
In the 1980s, or thereabouts, Richard Feynman thought of quantum computers. If quantum computers could be built(appears they will be built within the year of this writing), they'd solve problems like the biologists biggest problem - the protein folding problem, and other problems that would take classical computers forever to solve. They could open windows into quantum mechanics that are inaccessable to us now. The differential equations that we solve today are just a slice thought them. Quantum mechanics can let us explore into these differential equations and see . . . who knows. Some quantum technologies we have caught a glimpse of is quantum dots and artificial atoms.
Quantum dots and artificial atoms can make for alternative chemistries. Chemistry is based on the chemistry tables we've all seen. Imagine being able to change up the properties possible by making alternative chemistry tables. The amount of chemistry tables appears to dwarf anything we've experienced.
04:00m The prediction that inspired or explains the galactic build-out of 2,001 ASO, where Bowman crashes the Gate of the Jupiter Obelisk (preceding the Solitary Bedroom sequence.) This continuous build-out of at least part of the Galaxy is made more explicit in the 1968 Novel, but de-emphasized and abstracted by Kubric in the film as 'mind bending Human Evolution.'
This guy is actually time traveler.
Remember to have a greater understanding of the future we must look to the past.
From reflecting on your 10 yrs old comment what can you tell us about the future
Fascinating! AC Clarke predicting Futurama! Bite my shiny metal Rama!
I find it sad, that after 9,5 years on YT video has only 45,860 views. He wasnt alone to think about future, but he was one of few at the time with somewhat rounded vision.
In the end it all comes to implementing will of ones in charge, maybe human, maybe Ai. Because of force of "lazzynes" of biologic brains it will end either with full Ai, uploaded personality or some chip in brain (not that I want it, but it seems inevitable).
Such beings will then probably create anything they want or need in form of virtual objects or in extreme cases by mentioned replicator, when they will have no use for it, till be deconstructed again. Travell will by done via "avatars" if quantum science keeps its today promises.
Then in the end itll come to simple question which technology is stronger, traveling/shielding one or destructive one. For if first nuclear weapon could destroy planet we would all never existed or be dead. And more destructive weapons will be surely made and tested.
The Man Who Spoke About Antenna's Around the Space. Which is Called Satellites. Were Global Communication is Possible Today Etc,Etc.
Video added 2 playlist!
He's really only elaborating on what already existed at the time, wireless technology, computers, space travel, printers fax machines etc, it existed at the time he said this.
In the late 1880s when radio was in it's infancy, a few scientists were predicting Television, that only materialised as a device in the 1920s.
By the early 1960s computers were far more advanced than they had been in the late 40s early 50s and were being installed in large businesses, banks and government buildings, so it was obvious that they were going to get smaller and more powerful, you could make a phone call from your car in the late 1940s via a 2 way radio link to an operator who dialled the number for you, so it was reasonable to assume then that it was only a matter of time before the operator was removed from the equation and a portable mobile phone would eventually be invented
Replicator = 3D printing
no
It is the beginning and will evolve. Just imagine a device that can materialize an ultra high resolution hologram.
Tape recorder. When's the last time I heard that!? LOL.
1:30 - Clark displays the classic impatience of desiring to find Extraterrestrials "thousands of years in advance of our own" - when it will take thousands of years* to reach them, and less than a hundred years (from 1964) to attain the Omega Point of Emergent Focused AGI as a "Unified God Consciousness."
* The Drake Equation estimates 36 such civilizations in our Galaxy. Which, to traverse, is 53,000 light years. So at 1/4 light speed from the Earth to the very first one = 6,000 years (rounded). However if a true Earth requires a certain planetary configuration (to effect the quantum biological distribution of intelligence diversity of our own) to generate a human precursor life-form, the estimated number of advanced civilizations would be fewer than 1 - far fewer. Leaving Human Kind and Earth unique in this Galaxy and many others. This will be obviously an important question. On the other hand, there is still the possibility of instantaneous communication so our Gods can share recipes for human dishes. (Based on the Matrix Theory and Green Party Dynamics.)
@gukonni Good comment
Replicator is like the 3d printer:)
how in the hell could he predict this? in 60s? Now I want to bring him to today and show him my frakking supercomputer phone connected to the internet and GPS satellites.
He would have before 2008 when he sadly passed.
Anyone in the 1950 1960s would shit themselves at the sight of an iphone/android phone haha
Its because he was born in 2352. He traveled back in time to play a prank on human history. That's why he has this stupid expression on his face throughout the whole video
BasslineSynergie This is weird because I'm currently writing a Sci-Fi short story of how a computer expert in 1959 comes across a smart phone from the year 2020. It won't win any awards but I am trying to envisage the psychological trauma it causes as he begins to realise it has many thousand of time the power yet is thousands of times small than the transistor giant he's currently working on.(The 1959 ATLAS)
ewaf88 In all honesty, we will be like that circa 2070/90. it would be weird to have a small device nanometres in size that could regular insulin and monitor internal heath which I believe is under going testing currently. :)
BasslineSynergie I won't be alive then unless they find someway of downloading me to a computer but I think (by necessity) there will have been major changes to the way we live especially if we still haven't got Nuclear fusion to work economically. I don't think man will have reached Mars by then either as (due to rising energy costs) no Government will be able to afford it.
Current 3D printers are a very primitive form of replicator - something like the Edison cylinder for sound or the Baird's 30 line TV system. Maybe in 50 or so years we will have the HDTV (or open reel tape) equivalent...
not exactly.
Replicators! Tea! Earl Grey! Hot!
unreal
We could replicate in virtual matrix worlds in which we can live in and replicate virtual items by thought so replication won't be too dangerous because it will be in our virtual homes.
@csgeorgemanhl lol, maybe because he wrote it??
I imagine the future "materialisers" will work on the Elementary Particle level. Where by just manipulating the state/behavior of string particle then shaping it. You can literally create anything, everything from energy to full chemical elements. Controlling energy & mass at will. It's about scale.
he predicted everything except global warming
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@tostare Google Helping Hands.
The camara and the tape recorder would have seemed miraculous to our ancestors. That's right! The idea that we could copy ANYTHING, not just on a computer, but anything physical, is so scary because what if you copied yourself? Would the other copy exist? Would it have rights? Does it even matter? Maybe when we reach that point in our history consciousness won't be understood as it's understood today. I can't begin to imagine.
He did not write that.
Obviously, Clarke's forte' was not the medical sciences.
Yeah
Arthur Clarke would not be surprised watching a 3-D printer "replicate" an object from a computer program. He would however be unpleasantly surprised that we have become less liberal and more bigoted and intolerant. But Robert Heinlein wouldn't be surprised, as he predicted that human nature was intrinsically tribal, and humans generally acted in their own self interests. Thus "The Troubled Times" is occurring along with technological progress.
3D PRINTING the future is here
no.....replicator is something completely different from 3d printing...
replicator is futuristic machine that you can add lets say dirt and the outcome will be a metal car for example.(since dirt and cars have the same building blocs like protos and electrons.)
@@crazyduck2265 We have 3 D printers that make things out plastic and metals and cement homes and they are working on one that will make organs as ears, skin and who know what it will do, I know this is 3 years old but still holds true...
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