Sixty-two years ago, Arthur C. Clarke sat down with the BBC's Horizon program and described daily life in the year 2000: doctors performing surgery on patients thousands of miles away, people carrying devices that kept them in "instant contact with each other, wherever they may be," and workers doing their jobs without ever commuting to an office, as highlighted by Open Culture. — Read the rest
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