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1964: Arthur C Clarke predicts the future

In this clip from 1964, Arthur C Clarke talks about how difficult it is to predict the future, and how outlandish and far-fetched it will really be.

Here he questions whether cities will still exist in the year 2000, and suggests we will be in instantaneous communication all over the globe.

And we will have super-intelligent computers, of course, suspended animation and chimps as servants (until they unionise).

Originally broadcast 21 September, 1964.

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