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Now the ministering the day after tomorrow, say the year 2000? I think it will be completely different. In fact, it may not even exist at all.

Well, I'm not thinking of the atom bomb and the next stone age.

I'm thinking of the incredible breakthrough which has been made possible by developments of communications, particularly the transistor and

above all the communications satellite.

These things will make possible a world in which we can be in instant contact with each other, wherever we may be,

where we can contact our friends anywhere on Earth, even if we don't know their actual physical occasion.

It will be possible in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now,

for a man to conduct his business from Haiti or Bali, just as well as he could from London.

In fact, if it proves worthwhile, almost any executive skill, any administrative skill, even any physical skill, could be made

independent of distance. I am perfectly serious when I suggest that one day we may have brain surgeons in Edinburgh operating on patients in New Zealand.

When that time comes, the whole world will have shrunk to a point, and the traditional role of the city as a meeting place for man would have ceased to make any sense.

In fact, men will no longer commute, they will communicate.

They won't have to travel for business anymore, they'll only travel for pleasure.

That was the great Arthur C. Clark, essentially predicting what sounds a lot like the internet all the way back in 1964.

Pretty wild and accurate stuff by most predictive standards, especially if you consider the fact that the personal computer was still decades away at that point. And another thing I love about that prediction is he didn't fall into the trap of having an overly negative or rosy view of what was to come because as far as today goes discussions about the future are almost always framed in terms of a utopian

dystopian tug-of-war for tomorrow. Prognosticators are either promising the

apocalypse or immortality. But I think the reality of what's to come is much more

jumbled and up for grabs than that, because we've got emerging

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