In article <p06240802cee6934cf57b@[192.168.1.11]>, Robert A. Rosenberg <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote:
> [Arthur C Clarke] also "invented"/predicted the synchronous satellite > being used for communications. I saw a picture of him at a Science Fiction > Convention wearing a T-Shirt which read "I invented the synchronous > satellite and all I got was this T-Shirt" to make this point. He not only predicted it (including pointing out the orbit it required to function), he predicted that it would be used to allow sufficiently-wealthy citizens to evade laws against pornography, and incidentally referred to that predicted pornography targeting the four major sexes, implicitly de-marginalizing homosexual men and homosexual women. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
