Thread: Books That Predict The Future
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Old 07-24-2011, 04:58 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by VydorScope View Post
Wasn't it Orson Scott Card that predicted geosynchronous satellites, and then patented his idea to be safe?
I sincerely hope that you're joking... Arthur C. Clarke wrote about them in a magazine (non-fiction) in the late 1940's and couldn't patent the idea at the time because it was an unimplementable...
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