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Arthur C. #Clarke once said that every #revolutionary idea passes through three phases, which can be characterized by the statements of its #critics:
1) “It’ll never work – it’s pure fantasy.”
2) “It might work, but it’s not worth doing.”
3) “I said it was a great idea all along"
The long-run perspective on #technological change by #OurWorldInData (slightly enhanced with #Gimp for more #RocketScience
) https://ourworldindata.org/technology-long-run
#Clarke's three laws
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are 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.
Isaac #Asimov 1959
"It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_C._Clarke_1965.jpg
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