{"id":195838,"date":"2024-09-07T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/clarkes-three-laws"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:22:52","slug":"clarkes-three-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/clarkes-three-laws","title":{"rendered":"Clarke\u2019s three laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As crazy or stupid as it may sound to some people there are some dreams and ideas I will never Give up no matter how impossible it may seem now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One account stated that Clarke\u2019s laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author\u2019s assertions.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-2\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarke's_three_laws#cite_note-2\"> [ 2 ]<\/a> <\/sup> All three laws appear in Clarke\u2019s essay \u201cHazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination\u201d, first published in <i>Profiles of the Future<\/i> (1962);<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-3\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarke's_three_laws#cite_note-3\"> [ 3 ]<\/a> <\/sup> however, they were not all published at the same time. Clarke\u2019s first law was proposed in the 1962 edition of the essay, as \u201cClarke\u2019s Law\u201d in Profiles of the Future.<\/p>\n<p>The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay but its status as Clarke\u2019s second law was conferred by others. It was initially a derivative of the first law and formally became Clarke\u2019s second law where the author proposed the third law in the 1973 revision of <i>Profiles of the Future<\/i>, which included an acknowledgement.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-4\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarke's_three_laws#cite_note-4\"> [ 4 ]<\/a> <\/sup> It was also here that Clarke wrote about the third law in these words: \u201cAs three laws were good enough for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Newton\" title=\"Isaac Newton\">Newton<\/a>, I have modestly decided to stop there\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As crazy or stupid as it may sound to some people there are some dreams and ideas I will never Give up no matter how impossible it may seem now. One account stated that Clarke\u2019s laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author\u2019s assertions. [ 2 ] All [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}