[alex_d]

My point was the people take for granted the fact that they don't understand technology. I think at one point in time there was a clear distinction between technology and "magic." Technology was simple and understandable: making iron horseshoes and weaving. Maybe pushing a piston using steam. Now technology isn't limited like that, and authors like Arthus C. Clarke and special effects wizards in Hollywood have helped to make us feel already blase about technology that probably won't even ever exist.

We take for granted that technology has no limits, that it's not even limited by our imagination. The only possible limit that still exists is our comprehension and perception.

However, the quote wasn't "there are some technologies that are so advanced we'd be blind to them, incapable of even being aware of them in any meaningful capacity."

His quote said something entirely different, that _any_ technology sufficiently advanced will make us act like cavemen being shown a lighter... running around ooing, aahing, unable to get over the fact that we don't know how it works.

All our technology is already indistinguishable from magic, and we are all wizards: not caring how it works, only interested in knowing what spell to utter to get it to do something. If you show us new spells with new powers, we won't be shocked at all.

"Any technology that is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic" is just a meaningless, irrelevant sentence.