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alex_d · 06-08-2007, 01:52 AM

oh, whoa, I didn't notice. Goo expats! I'm in shanghai now. Still can't speak chinese tho... :-( Haha, but what the hell is "offering retirement choices for men" supposed to mean?

and about the arthur c. clarke quote... it's so not true. Noone thinks about magic. Moreover, noone these days understand anything about how their technology works. If you show someone something "sufficiently advanced" they'll either say "oh, that's like in the Matrix" OR "cool, they should put that in the next Matrix." A better quote would be, "our technology is already sufficiently advanced that people don't think, notice, or care about the difference between technology and magic."

06-08-2007, 01:52 AM	#23
alex_d Addict Posts: 303 Karma: 187 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: Sony Reader	oh, whoa, I didn't notice. Goo expats! I'm in shanghai now. Still can't speak chinese tho... :-( Haha, but what the hell is "offering retirement choices for men" supposed to mean? and about the arthur c. clarke quote... it's so not true. Noone thinks about magic. Moreover, noone these days understand anything about how their technology works. If you show someone something "sufficiently advanced" they'll either say "oh, that's like in the Matrix" OR "cool, they should put that in the next Matrix." A better quote would be, "our technology is already sufficiently advanced that people don't think, notice, or care about the difference between technology and magic." Last edited by alex_d; 06-08-2007 at 02:52 AM.