Fair play to the author for being honest about their tastes, but I can&#x27;t see these issues being shared by the majority of readers.<p>The counterargument to some of those issues was drafted over 50 years ago in the form of Clarke&#x27;s first and third law:<p>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.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<p>Accompanying these, Clarke wrote a detailed essay on all the reasons why spaceflight was once deemed impossible by a lot of well respected scientists.