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born on 16 December 1917, Arthur C Clarke lived long enough to see the year he and Stanley Kubrick made cinematically famous with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and it seemed for a while as though he might see in his centenary too: he was physically active (he had a passion for scuba diving), non-smoking, teetotal and always interested in and curious about the world. But having survived a bout of polio in 1962, he found the disease returned as post-polio syndrome in the 1980s; it eventually killed him in 2008.

« Quand on pense aux immenses avancées technologiques faites par l’Homme en quelques millénaires, en moins d’une microseconde à l’échelle de la cosmologie de l’univers, peut-on imaginer l’évolution que des vies plus anciennes doivent avoir connues ? Leur potentiel doit être infini… » interroge le réalisateur.