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Examines the potential future directions of technological development and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of progress
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Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.
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- PublisherVictor Gollancz, London
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 057506790X
- ISBN 13 9780575067905
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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