Most people are familiar with Isaac Asimov‘s Three Laws of Robotics but today I discovered he’s not the only science fiction writer creating laws in threes. Here are Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws of prediction:
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
For more “laws”, some insightful, take a look here (scroll down past the blue boxes).
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