In the future, Porn will be available to everyone, even if you don't know the exact eographical location of the pornstar.

Everything is amazing.

just imagine what new things that all experts are trying to create right now...
communication tools with aliens?? underwater bunker?? Human Clone ??

why we human always think that buildings in our future will be like in starwars movie??
we might end up living in the caves... who knows???

And that's why they burned him alive.

actually, he and many other science fiction writers did not predict the future, future is based on their ideas
last example, anyone remembers the minority report and new user interface?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru95N8AGdBQ

The great Arthur C Clark, a true visionary.

#5

Well, it's one of the role of science fiction.
First, to avoid some political mistakes (1984 ?) but also to invent or to guide the human progress.

very accurate.
here's what I think

Communication:
They had messengers, we have internet and phone, there will be anywhere physical apprearance.

Transportation
They had donkeys, we have planes, there will be warp gates and instant teleportation.

simulation
They had stories and myths, we have video games, there will be somthing like the matrix, some virtual world that seems real.

health:
They had chamans and witch doctors, we have surgents and docs, there will be pills with nanomachines or biomachines that cures everything (no more human doctors),and bio and mecha organs.

Habitation:
They had earth, we have earth, they will have many planets.

Structures:
They had caves and tents, we have building, there will be magnetic field beam coming from your watch designed to make a real indoor, whereever you want. more resistant than solid material.

and so on

A brilliant man!

#8 the sections which may raise some eyebrows are to be Politics and states, and Public law and law enforcement, all to become really construed to Environmental safety, or smth. - btw, i liked those ideas.

The man that predicted t-mobile, Orange and O2

hes right

#7 if so, it's the best guide for politics, and by the way 1984 is all around us, same logic, different approach

i agree with #10 future of politics, public law, states and social life is what i would like to hear about

old school nostradamus to me..

#8 nanotech isnt efficient, at least not in medicine. you must build all these tiny machines...not very economical. only for special purposes.

genetics is key here. simply bio engineer microorganisms as you please.

the guy just predicted the ICQ! wow! =D

02:36

telemedicine!
nicely done sir!

Who will be Arthur C. Clarke of this Generation to predict the Future ,I wanna hear ....

#8 i'm not so sure about the magnetic field watch ..and planets but still thumbs up
and #6 two tmubs up

#16, we only have to make the first nanomachines, they grow the rest to our specifications. It is trivial at that point to literaly grow trillions of them in vats like vintners produce wine today. We are already producing custom cells and organisms, in a few years we will have perfected the means of growing any material to our whims.

#19 try to listen to anything from Michio Kaku, he's the man.

Hey, I invented GPS Satnav technology in 1982,ask my bro!! Shame I didn't have the means or the Satellite and the TomTom technology to make my vision a reality.Does this make me a visionary??

Oh man I could've watched this forever, that's how fascinating it is!

Too bad less and less visionaries like mr. Clarke here exist today, the only one from the top of my head in present times is Stephen Hawking.

Great clip, thanks!

But what about the flying cars? We are should be flying them by now! Come on future, hurry up!

Minority report didn't so much inspire modern interfaces as was inspired by research.
John Underkoffler (science advisor for minority report) show this off : http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_with_a_gesture.html

As for accuracy in Clark's predictions.. instead of just ICQ try GPS, cell phones, and even the basics for modern day smartphones/iphones..
http://boingboing.net/2010/07/26/arthur-c-clarke-pred.html

Arthur C Clarke, visionary and author.
Genius brought undone by greed.

last...prediction...