Declan Fox wrote:
> as John W Campbell put it---"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
> indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C Clarke, his third law I think.
Gregory Benford's corollary to Clarke's third law is
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
I'm not entirely convinced of either of them, it hinges on who is to
distinguish, but they are true for a wide range.
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