Arthur C. Clark lived here, in Sri Lanka, from 1956 until his death in 2008. I wish I could show him all the things a mobile phone does nowadays.
I learned that Arthur C. Clarke lived here on one of my very first visits in the 1980s. I'm not quite sure I recall what prompted me to think of it that day but it had something to do with my phone. The science fiction writer and futurist might have been pleasantly surprised to see how quickly the technology has incorporated so many everyday uses.
I found a photo of the first satellite dish in Sri Lanka in the mid-1970s. It was at Mr. Clarke's residence in Colombo and a gift by the government India. It was part of the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, designed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The project made available informational television programs to rural India.