Fountains of Paradise

He does it again. I am amazed by Arthur C. Clarke's capability of doing far-fetched imagination. "Fountains of Paradise", an outstanding example of this. No, but I am not talking (only) about the "space elevator" here. I was impressed by the simple yet brilliant "News" system that he mentions just in passsing.

People specify their items of interest (of which he mentions the most interesting ones!)

Eggs, Dinosaur, hatching of
Circle, squaring of
Atlantis, re-emergence of
Christ, second coming of
Loch Ness Monster, capture of
World, end of

And, the intelligent news system blink when any news related to any item of interest comes up!
Interesting.