http://www.nickpunt.com Ideas are cheap Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:24:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.nickpunt.com/2008/03/18/the-end-of-an-era/ http://www.nickpunt.com/2008/03/18/the-end-of-an-era/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:00:47 +0000 nickpunt http://www.nickpunt.com/2008/03/18/the-end-of-an-era/ Arthur C Clarke died today, the last of the big 3. We have him to thank for the idea of telecom satellites, and we’ll still be singing his praises when we finally develop space elevators. In the mean time, people can occupy themselves reading his books, such as 2001 and the Rama series.

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