"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
undistinguishable from magic"
-Arthur C. Clarke
First of all to understand and have a wider view of
the statement of the quote by Arthur C. Clarke we have to explain the main
concepts in the quote, which are magic and technology.
Magic is, according to oxford living dictionaries, “The power
of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces”. Therefore
used to explain things we can’t explain or that are so advanced that we don’t
understand how they work.
On the other side, technology means: the application
of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. Hence
a natural difference between both of them, one mysterious and another
scientific knowledge.
The quote states that if a technology is sufficiently advanced
to the extent in which we no longer understand how it works or how it is built
(this might be different for every person) we assume it to be magic because as
the definition states it, magic is mysterious and can’t be explained; making
any extremely advanced technology, magic to a lot of people. This happens because
they can’t explain it. (176 words)
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