Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxesai biết cái bài này k cho xin answers với :V ----- Nội dung dịch tự động từ ảnh ----- more than once. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (0.5 point) EN THE ONLINE (ZOOM Predicting The Future? TTO CHANNEL Ân Anh b HCG. & A-Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke began writing science fiction in the 1930s. Many ideas and elements from his stories, which are set on space stations and distant planets, have become reality here on Earth. For example, in a novel he wrote in 1951, Clarke predicted the 1969 Moon landing, though he suggested that this would probably not occur until 1978. Sometimes his abilities to see into the future are uncannily accurate. The orbit for communications satellites is named after him because in 1945 he suggested precisely where it should be located. Nevertheless, Clarke does not believe that he - or anybody else for that matter - can see into the future. Instead, he says, he simply tries to outline possible "futures" while pointing out that totally unexpected inventions or events can make any forecasts absurd after a very few years.' In 1999, he did make a list of some of the events that he thought might happen during the 21st century. Most of these were positive developments because he believes that it is always better to be optimistic about the future. B-Jules Verne Before he died in 1905, Jules Verne wrote almost sixty novels in which he described a world very like the one we live in today. He predicted inventions such as planes, movies, guided missiles, submarines, air conditioning and the fax machine. Between 1865 and 1870, Verne wrote two novels about space exploration in which an aluminium craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24,500 miles per hour, circles the Moon and splashes |