{"id":3770,"date":"2024-08-23T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/08\/23\/arthur-c-clarke-talks-about-satellites-seti-remote-work-and-wrist-radios-1976-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:21","slug":"arthur-c-clarke-talks-about-satellites-seti-remote-work-and-wrist-radios-1976-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/08\/23\/arthur-c-clarke-talks-about-satellites-seti-remote-work-and-wrist-radios-1976-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur C. Clarke Talks about Satellites, SETI, Remote Work,  and Wrist Radios (1976 Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D1vQ_cB0f4w?si=Fd8D8Ehq7idlWQUI?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>He was, of course, right about the impact of satellites, but he was the inventor of the geo-stationary concept. I wonder how he would react to the low-earth orbit Starlink system we are now using. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>He coments about how contact with extraterrestrial civilizations could come at any time, but notes that false alarms are common &#8212; this made me think of recent explanations of the famous &#8220;Wow!&#8221; signal. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>His &#8220;Communicate don&#8217;t Commute&#8221; idea seems to foreshadow the &#8220;remote work&#8221; via Zoom that kicked in during the pandemic. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>And he talks about Dick Tracy-like wrist radios. I sort of have one now (thanks to Elisa), in the form of my Apple Watch. But it may be that putting a camera in there would be a bit too much&#8230; <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was, of course, right about the impact of satellites, but he was the inventor of the geo-stationary concept. I wonder how he would react to the low-earth orbit Starlink system we are now using. He coments about how contact with extraterrestrial civilizations could come at any time, but notes that false alarms are common &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/08\/23\/arthur-c-clarke-talks-about-satellites-seti-remote-work-and-wrist-radios-1976-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arthur C. Clarke Talks about Satellites, SETI, Remote Work,  and Wrist Radios (1976 Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,111,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites","category-seti","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11207,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}