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Re:He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary by justin66 on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:45PM (#13466355)
Well, in that case, there's certainly HAL 9000...
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Re:He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary by pklausler on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:01PM (#13467928)
Which was a machine coping as best it could with contradictory objectives.
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Re:He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary by justin66 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:20AM (#13469008)
Well, that describes every thinking thing, good or evil, that ever lived.

It just occurred to me, though, that 2061 (and its villains) do not have a coauthor, although I don't know why that's important to you. Sorry, but your claim that he didn't write villains is just a little silly, and his view of humanity was a little more complicated than "positive."

We haven't even got to the short stories. If you've got a few minutes, read Hate and reconsider your thesis: https://books.google.com/books?id=hbAqAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT13&dq=h...

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Re:He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary by pklausler on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:38PM (#13474145)
Bicker, bicker, bicker. My original point is that Clarke wrote his own novels with an optimistic view of people.

But you win!

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