Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke died in 2008, so video of him is all over the internet. That said, it’s good to see the science fiction author spring to life in the manner of one of his fantasy machines. Clarke’s work spanned space and time, and he was a scientist in his own right, working on early communications satellites (and predicting flat-fee calling) and he wrote books about spaceflight that influenced the U.S. Space Program in the 1960s.
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