Grow up and learn something before you start your pontificating.

So your opinion of him is based on an award for services to the culture of Sri Lanka? Clarke was against capitalism, colonialism and sovereignty over space. He warned of global warming and climate change. Try to have some knowledge of a subject before launching into a diatribe against it.

If you don't know who Arthur C Clarke is, you have insufficient knowledge to be able to comment on anything.

And when the lights do go out, we'll need some way of figuring out how to get them back on again.

Perhaps someone should forward this on to Patrick Rothfuss.