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Originally Posted by Jellby
Nowadays, the most frequent "deus ex machina" is computers (or hackers), they can solve anything with a computer and the Internet, just in a few seconds with a couple of key presses. It is so in CSI-like TV shows, and it was the most annoying thing I found in the Millennium trilogy. I know any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic[*], but come on!
[*] 3rd Clarke's Law.
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You are obviously not a teacher of creative writing to children
. I taught junior high school for nine years and always had my kids try to write their own stories. I think about every third story I would read from those kids ended with them waking up from a dream. Though in science fiction, you're right, every other story ends with a computer being broken into and a brilliant solution being made available.