Arthur C. Clarke (BBC Archive/YouTube) Sixty-two years ago, Arthur C. Clarke sat down with the BBC's Horizon program and described daily life in the year 2000: doctors performing surgery on patients thousands of miles away, people carrying devices that kept them in "instant contact with each other, wherever they may be," and workers doing their jobs without ever commuting to an office, as highlighted by Open Culture . Clarke — who by then had already written 2001: A Space Odyssey and proposed the geostationary communications satellite — told the BBC that cities would become obsolete. A city, he said, would be "any place where you happen to be," because technology would eliminate the reason people clustered together in the first place. He was essentially describing the digital nomad before the first email was sent. The specifics are what make it eerie. Telesurgery became real in 2001, when a surgeon in New York removed a gallbladder from a patient in Strasbourg, France. Remote work obviously exploded in 2020.…