About a month ago I stumbled across Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws of prediction somewhere on the internet while checking up on some facts about the 1968 movie on “2001: A space Odyssey”. His laws of prediction seems to make sense as ground rules of any creative activity. So think about your colleagues at work and read these omnipotent truths that beautifully puts a limit to the tyranny of experience:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

For any extra geeky readers, the BBC science and technology staff has investigated eight of Clarke’s predictions including cryogenics, the millennium bug, communication satellites and the space elevator.