jueves, 19 de enero de 2017

Personal response to Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic

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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