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Originally Posted by alex_d
"Any technology that is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic" is just a meaningless, irrelevant sentence.
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Perhaps so. now. However, it was a good deal less so when it was originally
written.
I'm not sure when it was originally written but I believe I remember hearing it most of my life, including a time when people did perform the modern equivalent of Neanderthal oooing and ahhhing over the Apple
Plus computers, having no clue how they worked.
All that being said, alex_d, I do see your point, that most of our society has gotten over this level of awe because we're just flooded with devices who's functioning principles we don't begin to grasp.
But the quote is a germinal one, and still holds a lot of power for at lot of folks. Perhaps not the least because we
want to have technology that is sufficiently advance as to be indistinguishable from magic.
