It was initially a derivative of the first law and formally became Clarke's second law where the author proposed the third law in the 1973 revision of Profiles of the Future, which included an acknowledgement. The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay but its status as Clarke's second law was conferred by others. Clarke's first law was proposed in the 1962 edition of the essay, as "Clarke's Law" in Profiles of the Future. However, they were not all published at the same time. All three laws appear in Clarke's essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", first published in Profiles of the Future (1962). One account claimed that Clarke's "laws" were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions.
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