A Quote by Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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.
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
The 'indistinguishable from magic' thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech.
The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.
Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.
Humans having any kind of sporting chance against hostile alien invaders armed with superior technology - Good luck. If they're advanced enough to cross the enormous distances of interstellar space, they're advanced enough to wipe us out without breaking whatever in their physiology passes for a sweat.
Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.
Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods.
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
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