{"id":5042,"date":"2019-05-08T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:15:35","slug":"clarkes-first-law-impossible-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/clarkes-first-law-impossible-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke&#8217;s First Law: Impossible Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5043\" src=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/impossible-technology-retro-future-vehicles-jomar-machado-designboom-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/impossible-technology-retro-future-vehicles-jomar-machado-designboom-22.png 950w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/impossible-technology-retro-future-vehicles-jomar-machado-designboom-22-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/impossible-technology-retro-future-vehicles-jomar-machado-designboom-22-768x463.png 768w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/impossible-technology-retro-future-vehicles-jomar-machado-designboom-22-624x376.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Science Fiction has a general and oft-ignored agreement that technology in a story should be plausible. Clarke&#8217;s first law, which states that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>applies to science fiction stories and readers as well as elder scientists.<\/p>\n<p>For example, uploading yourself into a digital environment and back again has been very popular in SF since the cyberpunk days of the 1980s if not before, but my understanding is that the chemical\/biological process just don&#8217;t support the implied bandwidth. But maybe I&#8217;m wrong about that. Check out\u00a0Elise Hu&#8217;s video in her new NPR segment called &#8220;Future You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">The future may be closer than you think<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hBAgVmlmFAY\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Got Comments? Post them on the FB link here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techrevu.com\/php\/Review-id.php?id=6948\">http:\/\/techrevu.com\/php\/Review-id.php?id=6948<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links\/References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Arthur_C._ClarkeNPR: Future Your\">Wikiquote: Arthur C. Clarke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/The Future You May Use Computer-Assisted Telepathy To Communicate | Future You | NPR\">The Future You May Use Computer-Assisted Telepathy To Communicate | Future You | NPR<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}