19 March 2008 @ 05:02 am
Is it just me or do more famous people appear to be dying this year?  
Particularly ones with at least some link to the geek subculture.

Author Arthur C. Clarke dies

I can't say I've read much of his stuff, but I've read some, and much of what I've enjoyed reading is built on what he wrote.

Plus he wrote "Sufficiently advanced technology is industinguishable from magic", a statement which is becoming increasingly true.
 
 
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ephrael[info]ephrael on March 19th, 2008 12:56 pm (UTC)
He's on the list of 'writers I should read more of'.
"Sufficiently advanced technology is industinguishable from magic" is one of my great life philosophies.
Draxar: large posteriors[info]draxar on March 19th, 2008 02:39 pm (UTC)
Especially given that much of our technology is relatively indistinguishable from magic to a large proportion of the users.

I also like the thing that someone added as an extra on it;

"Technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"