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I am incredibly saddened to hear that Arthur C. Clarke has died. He had been ill for sometime, and finally succumbed earlier today.

It is no exaggeration at all to say we owe the world to Clarke. He is most famous for having written the book and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, of course. But he also was the first person to conceive of a geostationary orbit; one in which a satellite orbits the Earth once every 24 hours, giving it a view that always shows the same face of the Earth. This is (mostly) where we put weather and communication satellites today.

When I was a kid, a borrowed a lot of his books from my Dad. His stories sparked my interest in Science and understanding the world around me, which eventually led me into Physics and finally Computing where I am currently. His books still show a fantastic imagination fifty years after some of them were originally written and some of his fantasies are now reality.