Arthur C. Clarke predicted geostationary communications satellites in 1945, two decades before one existed. The boy from Somerset who mapped the moon through a homemade telescope became the twentieth century’s most accurate technological prophet and co-creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

This episode follows Clarke from wartime RAF radar work to his move to Sri Lanka, his complicated personal life, and the paradox of a futurist who chose to live far from the civilization he championed.

• He proposed the geostationary satellite orbit in 1945, now called the Clarke Orbit
• He co-wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick
• He moved to Sri Lanka in 1956 and lived there for the rest of his life
• He was knighted in 2000 but received the honor in Colombo because he could no longer travel