Arthur C. Clark and the Human Family

Science fiction legend Arthur C. Clark would have turned 98 today.

When he realized he was dying in 2007, he made a video in which he told future generations: “I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.  So I hope we’ve learnt something from the most barbaric century in history – the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalization …”

Explorer Freya Stark has this to add: Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Good concepts for a winter’s day.