Comments on: Sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke is dead

Clarke, who wrote, among other things, '2001: A Space Odyssey,' has died, according to news reports.

[Pete Bardo]

If true...

It is a sad day, indeed.

[richard petty--2008]

Little Correction About 2001

According to video interview with Clarke, he and Kubrick set at separate desks in the same room; while Clarke wrote 2001 the novel, Kubrick wrote the movie screenplay.

There was constant collaboration between the two (it drove Clarke crazy) but both the movie and the book were written simultaneously.

--Richard

[Daniel Terdiman]

Thanks for pointing this out

I'll make the change. Thank you.

[mdedina]

Innovation is conservative?

The article says he "...spent some of the later years of his life... warning humankind that innovation is conservative."

Huh? What does that mean?

I guess this is a misconstruance of his quote, "...the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."

[HAL 9K]

I think what is meant...

I think it might originally have read, "...warning
humankind that innovation be conservative..."

Then it was probably mangled by some copyeditor
with no knowledge of the subjunctive.

Hal

[Really?!]

A sad day

This is a sad day indeed. Sad that Clarke is gone and sad that Wikipedia is the source used for the article. Come on there are better, more authoritative sources out there.

[tekla1]

last clarke interview

A colleague of mine was fortunate to be the last journalist to interview Clarke before his death, you can listen to the interview at http://spectrum.ieee.org/radio?id=2518, read a summary at http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6075, or read the whole transcript http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6076.