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Show ".. .his mind is at work somewhere out there." < 42 The visionary genius of Arthur C. Clarke takes into account reality as well as surmise. Clarke, well-known science fiction author, engineer and co-author of "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY," is a small, undistinguished looking personage, but the exterior camouflages a clear-thinking genius. "Mankind is in a race between education and catastrophe," he said, emphasizing earlier remarks on the need for greater human learning. "In the year 2001 there will be no place for someone as ignorant as the average college graduate of 1969." Clarke is probably one of the great minds of the century. Ask him a question, and the chances are quite good that he knows enough about the subject to have an opinion on it. His mind has rather more stowed in it than a medium-sized library, and his phenomenal memory makes it all accessible at once. He never stops those wheels in his head-even when conversing, his mind is at work somewhere out there. |