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Arthur C. Clarke is 105 today.
“In 2007, on his 90th birthday, Clarke recorded a video in which he says goodbye to his friends and fans. In it, he said: ‘I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we’ve learnt something from the most barbaric century in history — the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalization …’ He died of respiratory failure three months later.”
https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for-december-16-2022/