Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) British writer Profiles of the Future, “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination” (Clarke’s Third Law) (1962; rev. 1973)
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See also Stross.