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Clarke, A. C. (1972). Hazards of prophecy. In A. Toffler (Ed), The Futurists. New York: Random House.
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Resource type: Book Chapter
Language: en: English
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BibTeX citation key: Clarke1972
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Categories: AI/Machine Learning
Keywords: Magic, Phenomenology, Technology
Creators: Clarke, Toffler
Publisher: Random House (New York)
Collection: The Futurists

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Notes

Contains the first two of this three laws:
1. "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" (p.144).

2. "the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible" (p.150).

See also his famous Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (Clarke 1977/1962).

Clarke, A. C. (1977). Profiles of the future: An inquiry into the limits of the possible. 3rd ed. New York: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1962).
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