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One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions. [2] All three laws appear in Clarke's essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", first published in Profiles of the Future (1962); [3] however, they were not all published at the same time.
The same work also contained "Clarke's First Law" and text that became Clarke's three laws in later editions. [44] In a 1959 essay, Clarke predicted global satellite TV broadcasts that would cross national boundaries indiscriminately and would bring hundreds of channels available anywhere in the world.
Clarke's three laws, formulated by Arthur C. Clarke. Several corollaries to these laws have also been proposed. First law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the "inaction" clause, the same modification made in "Little Lost Robot"; the Second Law is modified to require cooperation instead of obedience; the Third Law is modified so it is no longer superseded by the Second (i.e ...
Clarke's three laws, three adages from British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's extensive writings about the future; Three Laws of Robotics, a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov
Clarke's three laws – Axioms proposed by British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke; First contact (anthropology) – The first meeting of two cultures previously unaware of one another; Futures studies – Study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures; List of eponymous laws – Adages and sayings named after a person
Brandt Clarke scored on a breakaway with 27 seconds left in overtime for his first career goal and the Los Angeles Kings rallied to beat the slumping Boston Bruins 5-4 on Saturday. Clarke had just ...
A Fall of Moondust is a hard science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel , [ 1 ] and was the first science fiction novel selected to become a Reader's Digest Condensed Book .