• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    Clarke or Azimov, can’t remember which titan of SF said it.

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      1 year ago

      It was Clarke - Azimov had other highly relevant quotes though, particularly the one on anti-intellectualism…

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        I got curious and looked them up.

        1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
        2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
        3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.