Happy 95th Birthday Arthur C. Clarke

Today on Discovery Enterprise we commemorate the ninety-fifth birthday of the late British Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World and inventor of the telecommunications satellite.

Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.

Today in honour of Arthur C. Clarke we present film critic Roger Ebert’s 1997 interview with Arthur C. Clarke.

In March of 1997, film critic Roger Ebert interviewed author Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey." The interview was featured at "Cyberfest ‘97,” a gala celebration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In "2001: A Space Odyssey," the evil computer "HAL" is said to have been born in Urbana in 1997. The gala event marked HAL’s fictitious birth, and celebrated the U of I's contributions to the revolution and evolution of computing.

Arthur C. Clarke with film director Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey

This program was produced by WILL-TV.

Roger Ebert Interviews Arthur C. Clarke
Roger Ebert Interviews Arthur C. Clarke from Illinois Public Media on Vimeo.