Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Communication

Quotes about: Communication

• A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Years, America

• One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Science, Sky

• It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Science, Years

• No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Technology, Important

• The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Depressing, Communication, Mean

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.73, RosettaBooks

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