1964: ARTHUR C CLARKE predicts the future | Horizon | Past Predictions | BBC Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwELr8ir9qM BBC Archive Dec 31, 2021
"The only thing we can be sure of about the future, is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely." - Arthur C Clarke.
The science-fiction writer and futurist Arthur C Clarke undertakes that most impossible and unrewarding of tasks - attempting to accurately predict the future. What will the world of tomorrow look like? Will the inhabitants of the future have monkey butlers? Yes, according to Mr Clarke, but only until they unionise...
Clip taken from Horizon, originally broadcast 21 September 1964.
https://medium.com/predict/predicting-the-future-lessons-by-arthur-c-clarke-342762ef0dcb On “A vision of the future” - 1960's, the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke paints the picture of a future in which communication would eliminate barriers and change the way people live and work. Although it is clear to us today how technology has changed our lives, his ideas seemed unreasonable and unthinkable to those of his time. As a futurist he spotted trends and envisioned what could be achieved with the development of transistors and communications satellites.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/010104_arthur.shtml