"The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic, so, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I'll fail completely."
That’s the auspicious opening line in a segment from BBC’s Horizon program, in an episode titled "The Knowledge Explosion," originally broadcast in September 1964 and delivered straight to camera by Arthur C. Clarke, one of Britain's most well-regarded science fiction writers and the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
