Arthur C. Clarke predicted search, email and video calls in a 1976 interview
PolarBearby · x · 2026-07-23
Arthur C. Clarke’s 1976 interview is resurfacing because he calmly described tools that sound like today’s internet: a home console with a screen and keyboard, information retrieval by conversation, asynchronous messages, and face-to-face video calls.
The clip also reminds viewers that he made an earlier leap in 1945 by proposing communications satellites before anything had launched, underscoring how much of his foresight came from reasoning from physics rather than from existing products.
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