<<January 2, 2001>>
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Dr. Joseph N. Pelton <ecjpelton@aol.com>

Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>

Dear e-Colleagues:
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(1) Happy New Year, everybody!!

I am very delighted to start this listserve distribution of this new
year, century and millennium with a very exciting event of Sir Arthur C.
Clarke Day on 7 February 2001 in Washington D.C. (ATTACHMENT I).

Dear Joe:
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Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).

(2) BTW, the statistics of our listserve distributions on e-learning from a
host computer at the University of Tennessee/Knoxville (UTK) in the past
years are as follows -- this is after doing the same from 1984 to 1994
at the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) of the New Jersey
Institute of Technology;

Year Number of Distributions

1994 14
1995 385
1996 192
1997 151
1998 80
1999 204
2000 236

TOTAL 1262

By the kind effort of Steve McCarty, you can retrieve the distributions since July, 1999 at

http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/index.html

or

http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/

I thank you for your continuing interest and encouragement of our
various projects. The Year 2001 will be more exciting than ever!!

Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I

From: Ecjpelton@aol.com
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:25:33 EST
Subject: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Day Celebrations on 7 Feb 2001
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Attached please find details of the planned celebrations at the Smithsonian
Institute and at the Newseum--including a special showing of the re-mastered
version of 2001: A Space Odyssey completed by Stanley Kubrick prior to his
death. Best wishes for a New Millennium. Joseph N. Pelton, Exec. Director,
Clarke Institute
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New Millennium Issue

_______________________________________________________________
Vol. No. 1, Issue No. 2 Joseph N. Pelton, Exec. Director
January 2001 Janet Tingley, Press Officer
_______________________________________________________________

Sir Arthur C. Clarke Day on 7 February 2001

Wednesday February 7th, 2001 will be Sir Arthur C. Clarke Day in Washington,
D.C.!!! At this event the start of an exciting new millennium will truly
begin as we re-examine what the year 2001 might have been as seen through the
visionary eyes of Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. NASA, INTELSAT,
Boeing, the AIAA, the American Astronautical Society, the National Space
Society, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, the
Newseum, Phillips Business Information LLC, the U.S. Space Foundation,
SPACE.COM, plus the Clarke Foundation of the U.S. and the new Clarke Institute
(CITI) will all join in a triumphant Sir Arthur C. Clarke Day Celebration.
The celebration will include the Clarke Symposium at the Smithsonian National
Air and Space Museum (NASM) from 2 to 4 pm. (The symposium will be free of
charge except for a $1.50 processing fee with a booking agency that the
Smithsonian Institution uses for such events.) Please go to the Clarke
Institute or the Smithsonian NASM Web site for details about booking tickets to this event.

The symposium at the National Air and Space Museum will include greetings from
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Walter Cronkite, and Tom Hanks (by video), presentations
by Dan Goldin of NASA and Conny Kullman of Intelsat, a short film on the
making of 2001 shot in 1966, a panel chaired by Fred Ordway (Technical Advisor
to Stanley Kubrick in the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey) that will include
artificial intelligence guru Marvin Minsky (of MIT) who first suggested the
name HAL for the computer in 2001, Keir Dullea, star of 2001 and Andy Chaikan, Space Historian.

The next part of the celebration will be a by-invitation-only reception at the
Newseum in Rosslyn, Virginia, followed by a special showing of the re-mastered
version of 2001: A Space Odyssey that was completed by Stanley Kubrick before
his death. This version of 2001 will be released in the U.S. later in 2001.

Although Sir Arthur C. Clarke is probably best know for writing 2001: A Space
Odyssey and nearly 100 works of science fiction, he is also known as one of
the foremost advocates of space exploitation. Thus, he is the father and
first conceiver of the geosynchronous communications satellite, the champion
of the idea of the space elevator, and the advocate of Space Guard-a program
to protect Earth from asteroids and comets.

The reception will both honor Sir Arthur C. Clarke and benefit the world-wide
virtual research organization known as the Clarke Institute for
Telecommunications and Information (CITI). This institute is the umbrella
non-profit organization that webs together the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of
the U.S., the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the United Kingdom, and the
Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies in Sri Lanka and over a
dozen other research organizations, universities and foundations. Tax
deductible donations to support the reception and screening are $60 per
individual and $100 per couple. Anyone wishing to attend can send their
reservation and check payable to the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S.
with a notation "For the benefit of CITI" to: ACCFUS, 11th floor, % Coudert
Brothers, 1627 Eye Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006-4007. This donation
essentially covers the cost of staging these two events. Since sponsoring
organizations have claimed well over 100 tickets and attendance at the event
is limited to 220, you are encouraged to send in your reservations and check
just as soon as possible since we must operate on a first come first served
basis. (See the invitations to these two events below.)

Werner Von Braun Lecture by Sir Arthur C. Clarke at Smithsonian

Sir Arthur has agreed to provide via video the Werner Von Braun letter at the
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in coming months. This event is to be
scheduled in June 2001 and will include the new Sir Arthur C. Clarke Awards
for achievement in the field of communications.

Update on Activities of the Clarke Institute

Current major activities of CITI include the following:

* Millennium Village Project: An integrated space communications and
economic development project scheduled for Sri Lanka for which $800K in
funding for the initial project is being solicited. The Solar Electric
Light Fund is the lead organization on this project.
* Global Services Trust Fund for Tele-education and Tele-health: A
funding proposal is currently being prepared for the InfoDev section of
the World Bank. A proposal for a low-cost satellite system that could be
manufactured with off-the-shelf components and integrated at
participating universities by faculty and graduate students is under study.
* Global Commission on the Future: A cooperative program with the World
Future Society, the Buckminster Fuller Institute and others is under discussion)
* Project WARN (Warning and Recovery Network): A cooperative arrangement
with UNICEF and VITA is under discussion . Also a new project that
could be carried out in cooperation with NASA and George Washington
University is being considered.

The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S. sponsors the annual Arthur C.
Clarke Award and Lecture, provides fellowships to students and holds
symposiums and seminars. The Clarke Institute is a worldwide virtual research
organization with a growing number of affiliate organizations around the
world. If you would like to assist CITI in one or more of the above projects
or have thoughts about CITI activities please contact either Joseph N. Pelton
or Janet Tingley via the Clarke Institute web page.

More information about the Clarke Institute and the Clarke Foundation of the
U.S. and its work can be found at: http://clarkeinstitute.com
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INVITATION
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THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE FOUNDATION OF THE U.S. CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE
ARTHUR C. CLARKE DAY CELEBRATION ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2001 AT THE
NEWSEUM, 1101 WILSON BLVD., ROSSLYN, VA.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2001
RECEPTION - 6:00 -7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY A SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE NEWLY RE-MASTERED FILM: 2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY PRIOR TO ITS U.S. RELEASE - 7:30-10:30 PM

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HOSTED BY NASA, THE SMITHSONIAN NASM, INTELSAT, THE NEWSEUM, THE BOEING
CORPORATION, THE CLARKE INSTITUTE AND THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE FOUNDATION OF THE U.S. (ACCFUS)

CO-SPONSORS: AIAA, AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCEITYTHE U.S. SPACE FOUNDATION ,
THE NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY, PHILLIPS BUSINESS INFORMATION, LLC, AND SPACE.COM

THIS EVENT SUPPORTS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE INSTITUTE FOR
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION (CITI)
(FOR MORE INFORMATION ON CITI GO TO: HTTP://CLARKEINSTITUTE.COM)

Please make your tax-deductible contribution in support of this event to ACCFUS:
$60 for individuals, $100 per couple
_________________________________________________________________________
Return registration form:
Name(s)____________________________________ Telephone:___________________
Address____________________________________ E-mail:______________________
Number in party________________ Amount Enclosed: ________________________
Return to: Tim Logue, Treas, ACCFUS, % Coudert Brothers, 1627 Eye St. NW,
Washington,DC 20006
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INVITATION
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THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE FOUNDATION OF THE U.S. CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE
ARTHUR C. CLARKE DAY SYMPOSIUM AT THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM OF THE
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 6TH AND INDEPENDENCE AVE.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2001
2-4 PM

WELCOME: MARTIN COLLINS, NASM AND CONNY KULLMAN, INTELSAT
VIDEO GREETINGS BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE, WALTER CRONKITE AND TOM HANKS. ON-SITE
ADDRESS BY DAN GOLDIN, NASA ADMINISTRATOR

PRESENTATION ON THE MAKING OF 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY BY FRED ORDWAY, TECHNICAL
ADVISOR TO STANLEY KUBRICK. HE WILL SHOW STILL SEQUENCES MADE DURING 1965 AND
1966 AT THE MGM BRITISH STUDIOS. FOLLOWED BY A SPECIAL PANEL INCLUDING FRED
ORDWAY, KEIR DULLEA, STAR OF 2001, PROF. MARVIN MINSKY OF MIT (WHO NAMED HAL),
AND AUTHOR ANDY CHAIKIN.

DECLARATION OF SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE DAY BY D.C. CITY COUNCIL AND BRIEF REPORT
ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE INSTITUTE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND INFORMATION (CITI) BY JOSEPH N. PELTON, EXEC. DIR.

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HOSTED BY: NASA, INTELSAT, SMITHSONIAN NASM, THE NEWSEUM, THE BOEING
CORPORATION, THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE FOUNDATION OF U.S. AND THE CLARKE INSTITUTE
FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION

CO-SPONSORED BY: AIAA, AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY, NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY,
THE U.S. SPACE FOUNDATION, PHILLIPS BUSINESS INFORMATION, LLC, SPACE.COM

Reservation Required ($1.50 booking fee)
First Come, First Served (Go to Clarke Institute Web Site for Details)
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ATTACHMENT II

Excerpt from
<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/2001_001223.html>

December 29, 2000

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(Photo caption)
It¼s the year 2001, and Hilton Hotels runs a franchise hundreds of miles above the Earth. (MGM/Warner Bros.)
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The Legacy of 2001
The Visionary Film Will Turn 33 Years Old ã But Is It Dated?

By David Morgan

N E W Y O R K, Dec. 29 ã When Stanley Kubrick¼s monumental film 2001: A
Space Odyssey premiered in 1968, it represented more than a touchstone in
cinematic art and special effects; it was a wish of how man would escape his
earthly cradle and venture forth toward the stars.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Fly Me to the Moon, Call Me, Out of This World, Talk About a Commute, Vast
Wasteland, Getting Chills

To a wide-eyed viewer seated in the audience nearly 33 years ago, the
future never looked more amazing, for mixed in with the film¼s densely crafted
metaphysical and political attitudes was an extrapolation of the evolution of
technology, as envisioned by Kubrick and his co-writer, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.
But now that time has marched on and we stand at the dawn of the 21st
century, how close were the filmmakers¼ projections to reality?

Fly Me to the Moon
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What Was Predicted:
Passengers could shuttle between the Earth and orbiting space stations
via Pan Am¼s supersonic transports. Dr. Haywood Floyd dozes on board
while a movie plays in the seat back before him and as his pen floats
through the weightless cabin.
Where We Stand Now:
As the Apollo program headed toward a lunar landing in the late 1960s,
Pan American World Airways accepted 90,000 reservations for commercial
flights to the moon, predicted to begin circa 2000. Alas, in 1991 Pan Am
filed for bankruptcy, only to rise from the dead several years later as
a regional service among such cities as Pittsburgh, Bangor, Maine, and Sanford, Fla.

But tests of experimental aircraft are continuing, based on predictions
that commercial suborbital and orbital flights will take place in the near
future, to feed an anticipated growth in space industry and tourism.
At least today, many jets have personalized or seat-back viewscreens as in the 2001 plane.
Kubrick commissioned the Parker Pen Company to design an „atomic pen¾
that would presumptively work in zero gravity without filling the plane with
clouds of floating ink. The concept behind its design ã a heat generator ã
presages today¼s inkjet printers.

Call Me
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What Was Predicted:
Bell Telephone¼s Picturephone would enable face-to-face communications
between someone on Earth and a caller on board an orbiting space
station. Price of a two-minute call? $1.70.
Where We Stand Now:
The Bell System ã a consortium of local and long-distance companies as
well as research laboratories ã was split in 1984 in a historic
antitrust decision. PicturePhone, which Bell marketed aggressively in
the 1960s and early ¼70s, never caught on with a public likely concerned
over answering the telephone while wearing only a bath towel.

But Internet broadband technology, video teleconferencing and digital
cameras have developed to the point where face-to-face communication is
gaining more popularity.
And as the rise of Web cams suggests, people today are perhaps less
modest about revealing themselves to friend or stranger alike.

What Was Predicted:
Security access would be checked through voiceprint identification.
Where We Stand Now:
Voiceprint recognition software ã one of a slew of biometric
technologies slowly taking over the need for personal identification
numbers, or PINs ã is being increasingly used in computer and cell phone
access and caller ID.

Out of This World
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What Was Predicted:
Hilton and Howard Johnsons would be among the corporations with franchises in space.
Where We Stand Now:
Howard Johnsons, whose hotel and restaurant properties in the United
States and Canada have been reduced in the past 25 years while its
international presence has expanded, seems far off from opening its
„Earthlight Room.¾ So expect no Hojo burgers in space in the near future.

But Hilton is studying the feasibility of opening accommodations 100
miles above terra firma.
„We want to take a hard look at it and see if Hilton can be first into
space,¾ said company spokeswoman Jeannie Datz last year. „It¼s certainly not
going to happen tomorrow. We¼re talking 15 to 20 years down the road, if any
of it makes sense.¾

Talk About a Commute
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What Was Predicted:
Moon colonies set up by Americans and Soviets would conduct scientific
and commercial enterprises.
Where We Stand Now:
So far, the only manmade objects on the moon are the remnants of several
landing parties and unmanned craft, some scientific equipment, a barely
used lunar car, and a bunch of golf balls. NASA¼s plans for a lunar
colony to be set up by the mid-1980s were curtailed due to cost and a
lack of political will. Given the difficulties just in getting an
orbiting space station up and running, a moon base is probably far, far
off in the future.

But a recent discovery that there is ice on the moon has kept the dream
alive, that man will someday colonize Earth¼s satellite, if only as a
launching pad for interplanetary travel. Of course, if oil were discovered
under the Sea of Tranquility, things would be very different.

Vast Wasteland
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What Was Predicted:
The communications explosion would cause the venerable British
Broadcasting Corp. to expand its broadcast channels, creating „BBC 12.¾
Where We Stand Now:
The BBC still has only two television channels, but its commercial
competitors, as well as dozens of satellite/cable stations, have
increased the British television airwaves way beyond the pittance of TV
channels that existed in 1968.

But that doesn¼t mean the programming has changed much. The No. 1 show in
the United Kingdom today is still the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

What Was Predicted:
Portable, flat-screen, clipboard-sized televisions.
Where We Stand Now:
Flat-screen plasma displays have already been wedded to TVs and
computers, while portable DVD players/viewers and Watchman TVs have been
available for some time.

Getting Chills
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What Was Predicted:
Astronauts on deep space voyages would be kept in hibernation, to
preserve resources on the months-long trip to Jupiter.
Where We Stand Now:
There have been several advances in discovering the secret of human
hibernation, which would make deep-space voyages feasible. Research at
North Carolina State University has identified two genes ã PL and PDK-4
ã that appear to control hibernation by halting carbohydrate metabolism
and controlling the production of enzymes that break up stored fatty
acids in the body. Researchers are also studying the effects of
melatonin on hibernation. Applications of these genetic or hormonal
treatments may also include the preservation of donated organs.

Cryogenics ã which refers to freezing people to be thawed out later ã is
pretty much untested, although experiments with frogs suggest that cells
reduced in temperature can be resuscitated without damage.

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(Photo caption)
Astronauts journey to the outer planets in hibernation to preserve resources.
(MGM/Warner Bros.)
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That Does Not Compute
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What Was Predicted:
An artificial intelligence could not only run all functions of an
interplanetary craft, but also beat humans at chess, engage in
conversations using voice synthesis, and sing. Oh yeah, it could also kill people.
Where We Stand Now:
The HAL 9000 was ahead of its time (and ours) in terms of an
independently thinking machine. Artificial intelligence has progressed
in the research stage, at such places as the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and vehicles in unmanned expeditions to other planets (like
a Mars rover) are being developed with cognitive tools that may allow
them to think about how to react to stimuli without waiting for
instructions to be broadcast from Earth. But we¼re still a ways off.

Lynn Andrea Stein, a professor of computer science at Massachussetts¼
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, points out that today¼s computers can
tackle all kinds of specialized tasks. But when it comes to complex human
traits such as judgment and creativity, technology still can¼t compute.
„Wonder, fear, free will ä each of these is a very complicated
phenomenon, and I think we¼ll need to understand them much better before we
can help the computer to have any of them (if we ever can),¾ she told
ABCNEWS.com in an e-mail.
At least the filmmakers got the chess part right. In 1968 international
chess master David Levy wagered that no computer could beat him in 10 years,
and he won the bet in 1978 when he defeated the Chess 4.7 computer with three
wins and one draw. But today, computers such as Deep Thought and Deep Blue
have defeated grand masters in tournament play.
There are commonly available text-to-voice „reading¾ software
applications. Also, a program by Myriad called Virtual Singer can mimic human
voice, so the dulcet tones of HAL singing „Daisy¾ could not only be matched
but likely improved.
In terms of murder? As much as we may want to kill our computers,
fortunately there hasn¼t been a case of the reverse.

Warner Bros., which owns the rights to 2001, is planning a theatrical re-
release of the film in the fall of 2001.

2001: Foretelling the Future

Copyright © 2000 ABC News Internet Ventures.
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Dr. Joseph N. Pelton
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Applied Space Research, Rm 340
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In Japanese: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/jpublist.html
In English: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
http://www.asiasource.org/experts/ax_mp_03.cfm?expertid=1944
Fundamental Projects of Dr. Takeshi Utsumi [Japanese-English]:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/projects-ej.html
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/projects-j.html (Japanese)
Global University System Asia-Pacific Framework:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/index.html
Global University System Mid-2000 Correspondence:
http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/index.html

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