I agree to some extent with Rick. Nevertheless I think no matter what came to past or didn't the masses have come to accept, sometimes reluctantly, the technocracy we live in today. Even those in the developing world are being engaged in the communications and technical revolution. A. C. Clarke showed us that we need not fear the unknown. Murray McCullough Message: 28 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:12:55 -0600 From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Aurthur C. Clarke has passed To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <47E12D77.5080206 at jetnet.ab.ca> <47E12D77.5080206 at jetnet.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Rick Bensene wrote: True. But if I remember authors right, 2001 never did come true.