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Article: Life beyond 2001 Now 83, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of the visionary 2001: A Space Odyssey, has a new forecast for the coming century: holiday domes on the Moon; the end of agriculture - and swimmers bred with webbed feet and built-in snorkels
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- December 17, 2000
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`I may have saved the human race, you know." Sir Arthur C. Clarke
rolls his wheelchair back from his desk and, baring an alarming set
of pearly-white dentures, drops his jaw and grins at me. I had been
thinking how like P. G. Wodehouse he looks. Suddenly he is Dr
Strangelove.
He laughs triumphantly and tosses two documents towards me:
papers from NASA and the British National Space Centre detailing
strategies for protecting Earth from devastation by asteroids.
Clarke - who, in the 1940s, developed the basic theory of
communication satellites (for which he was nominated for a Nobel
prize) and, in 1948, anticipated, in detail, man's first landing on
the Moon - turns out also to be the man who ...