As the
title has already told you, this entry will consist of a personal response I decided
to make regarding an idea said by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke, which states that any
sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic.
Now, allow
me to explain my posture which is one of disagreement, but first of all, I
consider it would be adequate to share with you my definitions of “magic”, with
which I will be working: “magic” is any practice or technique that uses
supernatural powers as the means to produce an effect.
Since real human
technology* (at least the entire one I know) is not created by illogical supernatural
forces, but by concrete, tangible scientific procedures, everything implied in
real technological phenomena can be explained by science. Some people may not be
able to understand it, but this does not make real technology undistinguishable or impossible to tell from magic.
LEARN TO WRITE, ARTHUR.
*I emphasized
“real” because magic would be a kind of technology according to definitions,
and as far as I know, magic is not real (sad muggle life… or am I faking? >;]).
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