It is true that he envisioned a manned geostationary satellite. In fact, he even knew that there would be enough solar power to have.... a steam engine.

I love that detail, but he really was brilliant.

None of the news articles mentions that he was the first Chancellor of a Technical University sponsered by the government where I was an instructor for a short while and he was also a member the Rationalist Association of Sri Lanka.

Possibly the greatest gift Arthur C. Clarke gave us is his view on humanitarian technology. He claimed that a household could and should be totally independent, as far as its energy and sanitation needs are concerned, from as early as the 1960's. He concidered technology to be the ultimate tool that would free humanity from the need of labour and the existence of poverty. His plans weren't science-fiction. He was a visionary man whose visions are realistic and we should follow his path and try to realize his ideas.