Arthur C Clarke ....BBC Horizon interview 1964....

[Cidersomerset]

Arthur C Clarke a fellow son of Somerset, did this interview in 1964 talking about how he saw the next 50yrs and beyond interesting.....Its a shame he passed before Bill and Kerry could interview him.....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KT_8-pjuctM

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XosYXxwFPkg

A few thoughts from a man of vision....Cheers Steve

[Cidersomerset]

I really enjoyed his series 'Mysterious World' and it opened up my eyes to the mysteries of the universe...

World Of Strange Powers - 01 Warnings From The Future

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uFMdMHTuKEU

That brought back some memmories and they don't make them like that anymore ..LOL..Cheers Steve.

[Davidallany]

Seeing this is most agreeable, Cidersomerset. Thank you.

[Davidallany]

Arthur doesn't have an English accent. He must have been Cymraeg.

Hwyl.

[Cidersomerset]

He was Born and bred in Minehead,just up the coast from here , opposite those heathen Cwmru....LOL ...

Although I passed my driving test in Bridgend many years ago....Cheers Steve

[Davidallany]

When I listen to him then listen to Bill Ryan, I hear a big difference in pronunciations. Why is that?

[Cidersomerset]

Although I hear faint somerset twang in Arthurs accent , due to his travels it has become more nuetralised, Bill was brought up in Africa and his accent to me sounds colonial

rural english with a hint of something ????...LOL Steve

[araucaria]

Only listened to the first bit - no new domesticated species in 5000 years, let's enslave monkeys, dolphins and whales? I don't like the sound of that, or of some the other stuff either...

[Cidersomerset]

Its a message of its time, but he also said the apes would learn how to form trade unions . What I took from it is comformation that the secret space programe could well have
been underway in the 50/60's and as a insider his views were based on technology already developed , and how he saw the future. Some of which is familier some not...

[araucaria]

I don't want apes to form trade unions that's what slaves do. Dolphins and whales form schools already, much more enlightened

[truth4me]

Also wrote the book "Childhood's End"....

[Cidersomerset]

Very good , but we may have been Apes before the Annunaki intervened and made us slaves !!...I expect he changed his views later....This interview was made before the communication satalites wereactive like today , but he talks about suspended animation and doing surgery across the world by computor link, and possibly solve hunger by a replication devises.

He also says the planets in our solar system are uninhabitable with the possible exception of Mars !!
In the future scientists may be able to perform planetery engineering to make them more hospitable...

[Ecnal61]

Did this guy know something about the future? machines overtaking mankind and uploading information straight into the brain are both features of the film "The Matrix". i read somewhere that he was a high ranking mason and so maybe he had access to info that mere mortals of 1964 would not have known about,also stuff he wrote about in his sci_fi books has come into our world now....an imaginative man or an informed man?

[Cidersomerset]

I expect he was mate, most NASA insiders were and are I think ? ..I'l have a look around....

I can't find anything yet though there is insinuation, David Icke probably said it at some point?

Found this tribute by Richard Hoagland who did a tribute to him on coast just after his death...

Don't get me wrong Arthur was deffinately a insider and this might have caused his demise and more or less exile on Shri Lanka and although he was getting on his death was a bit of a shock.I think Bill and Kerry were trying to get over there and interview him ??

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvi...rke___Pt__1_3/

But he also inspired a generation of people to reach to the skies....

[Ecnal61]

As for enslaving monkeys and dolphins,i think he had his tongue buried deeply in his cheek..i hope.

[Cidersomerset]

Maybe he inspired the first Planet of the apes film as well...

If thats all people take from the interview fair enough, but if it was not for his vision we may not be communicating here tonight, and I took a lot more than that...

Think of listening to that interview in 1964...after the austerity of the fifties in the wake of the destruction of WW11....

Arthurs 90th Birthday interview..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE

This is Arthurs last recorded message, he was certainly with it and following world events....
Whether he knew more than he publicly said we may never know..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oF2z5-kTm2I

[araucaria]

Posted by Ecnal61 (here)
As for enslaving monkeys and dolphins,i think he had his tongue buried deeply in his cheek..i hope.

enslaving was my term, he said domesticating, nobody in those days would have taken issue with domesticated cattle
I just thought it didn't sound too smart from Arthur C, I'm probably not making allowances for such distant times, makes me feel old

[Ilie Pandia]

I've only watched the first video in the original post and what a violent future did it predict!

Machines cutting down through the jungle and laying roads in matters of hours.

Bio engineering as a way to create servants out of the apes, whales and dolphins?! (Aren't we a bit arrogant here... all hail the superior human of the 20th century...). He says is shameful we did not add another "domesticated animal" to our list. Where would the animals or the nature be today if man was not here to improve on them?

He used words as "taming" and "conquering", for man is at battle with everything that surround him is it not?

And then he talks about the mechanical evolution... that to me seems like the signature of very poor spiritual evolution. And no, I am no saying that highly spiritual beings will not use technology. But I am saying that such technology would not be use to tame or conquer anything: be it animal, space or even the human body.

I hope the future is even more fantastic than he predicted, and we will cooperate, be friends and harmonize with our environment, instead of conquering it.

[Seikou-Kishi]

Posted by Davidallany (here)
When I listen to him then listen to Bill Ryan, I hear a big difference in pronunciations. Why is that?

Because the accents in the UK are very diverse. Daniel Jones, a phonetician who studied the pronunciation of the English language noted that the accent varies every fifteen miles; one of the most densely varying regions in the world in terms of accent. Add to that the fact that the accents changed over time, you'd be hard pushed to find anybody from Clarke's era and from the modern era who speak at all alike; even the Queen's pronunciation has changed over the past 50 years, and the very conservative RP of the the Royal family changes a lot more slowly than most accents in the UK.

Hope that clears a few things up lol

[Cidersomerset]

Ilie listen to the second part and the introdution episode of his seeries mysterious world.It was the first programme of its type aired on British TV and opened up a whole new world of incredible things to my generation, and was another factor in getting more ordinary people involved in a subject before just known to a few scholers and adventureres. If you still feel the same after that fair enough, but you are focusing on the wrong part,imho...

He was a visionary and a man of peace, the words he used though wrong to us now were common then..In his final two pieces he talks of his hopes for man, and about climate change and regarding damaged caused to the earth he says 'we only have to look in the mirror'...The search for new cleaner energy he said was a must, so he had changed with the times. In 1964 we were in the mist of the cold war he had been in the RAF during WW11 and his mannerisms were more formal. Yes I don't agree with enslaving apes, whales and dolphins, but obviously the military were doing it then and may still be.The US were sending monkeys into space and the Russians were sending dogs...I totally agree all that is wrong so is force smoking beagles ,monkeys , mice ,rats etc.

Also clearing the rain forrests are wrong and he would agree with us judging by his last interview, but again in the sixties it was all about exploiting the worlds resources so thats what he was reffering to. To which I agree we all think it is damaging our planet and lining the pockets of a few elite families and corporations....

But Apart from that what did Arthur Clark do for us.....LOL..As Monty Python would say !!

Maybe I'm looking back at it with to much nostalgia.....possible..

I just realised the TV seeries was made before you were born !!

Now that makes me feel old...LOL...Cheers Seve..