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Arthur C. Clarke predicting remote work in 1964. "It will be possible, perhaps only 50 years from now, for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali just as well as he could from London.” And he lived until 2008 – long enough to see the world...

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Dan Fennessyvor 2 Jahren

@Jobvo

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Bahman Sadeghivor 2 Jahren

Even remote brain surgery came true. Bali , wow

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Mavisvor 2 Jahren

I wonder what thoughts and incliniations he had at the time that would make him think that. Crazy.

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Marianovor 2 Jahren

50 years ahead of the curve

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JP Lalvor 2 Jahren

Clarke's foresight was as remarkable as his science fiction. From typewriters to tablets, his vision of remote work aged like fine wine.

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Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future of computing in 1974, with his young son Jonathan beside him: "I brought along my son Jonathan who in the year 2001 will be the same age as I am now. Maybe he will be better adjusted to this kind of world that you're trying to portray." Clarke then paints a picture of what daily life will look like when Jonathan grows up: "The big difference when he grows up is that he will have in his own house not a computer as big as this, but at least a console through which he can talk to his friendly local computer and get all the information he needs for his everyday life: his bank statements, his theater reservations, all the information you need in the course of living in a complex modern society." He describes the setup with remarkable precision: "This will be in a compact form in his own house. He'll have a television screen like these here and a keyboard, and he'll talk to the computer, get information from it, and he'll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone." But the interviewer raises a concern that still resonates today: "I wonder though, what sort of a life would it be like in social terms? I mean, if our whole life is built around the computer, that we become a computer-dependent society and computer-independent individuals in some ways?" Clarke acknowledges the tension but sees a profound upside, one that anticipates remote work decades before it became reality: "They'll also enrich our society because it'll make it possible for us to live really anywhere we like. Any businessman executive could live almost anywhere on Earth and still do his business through a device like this." He closes with a vision that has quietly come true for millions: "This is a wonderful thing. It means we won't have to be stuck in cities. We'd be better off living out in the country or wherever we please and still carry on complete interaction with human beings as well as with other computers." Half a century later, Clarke's prediction reads less like science fiction and more like a description of an ordinary Tuesday. Banking, bookings, information at our fingertips, working from anywhere, all taken as much for granted as the telephone, exactly as he said.

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