A brief post to honor and celebrate the life of the late, great, and highly creative, Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Â Clarke died yesterday, March 19, 2008Â at the age of 90. Â He is best known for his science fiction writing, specifically the short story, The Sentinel, that led to the seminal film “2001:A Space Odyssey.” It is not widely known that Clarke was something of an inventor/technologist having articulated the idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays — in 1945. To say that this was a good idea — as it lead to them actually being used in that fashion and also set up the conduit used by cable television services like HBO to distribute content all over
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