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The Arthur Clarke short story "I remember Babylon". Kicked off the geostationary space industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_Babylon https://en.wi
by Kim_Bruning 5y ago
The Arthur Clarke short story "I remember Babylon".
Kicked off the geostationary space industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_Babylon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_Babylon
(Not his only work that had some influence on history: "The Nine Billion Names Of God" IIRC was one of the first times anyone suggested that computers might be able to process text as well as numbers. "Superiority" (how technical superiority need not win) was required reading in a certain MIT course for a while. And of course "2001 a space odyssey" will have influenced a lot of people in less-easy-to-define ways.)