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  2. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Origins. One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions. [2] .

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    • Was Arthur C. Clarke Right? An Exploration of The Magical Nature of Technology

    A story by Ramon Mas Baucells

    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke The skin on my arms is raw. My feet a mass of sores. I walk slower and slower as the inertia wanes. It’s the exhaustion of the last day, the beat prior to the Blast. Those of us who sit down now will turn to dust. I sometimes envy them. To stop. To die. But I’d be incapable of doing a No-Further. I believe in the rhythm, I was taught to carry on. Just like every three thin moons, the pilgrimage takes the sh...

    A story by Lucía Lijtmaer

    The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Matt Ridley -Hello. -Hello. -Can you tell me what’s happened? -No, sorry. -But something’s happened. -It’s an error. That’s all I know. -Really? -Yes. -Can’t it be fixed? -As I said, that’s all I know. Something went wrong. Our engineers have been informed. -The engineers? Since when is this a problem for engineers? And anyway, what engineers are you talking about? Some kind of collective? -Actually, I think the problem is that you didn’t send the...

    An interactive piece by Oscar Marín

    In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. The visualization below aims to explore this concept, offering a general classification of ‘magical acts’ and a timeline of what could be the evolution of their technological counterparts (you can...

  3. Mar 17, 2017 · Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This is by far the most popular of the three laws. It is invoked frequently in popular culture and is often just referred to as "Clarke's Law."

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  4. It appeared in a footnote in his 1973 revision of Profiles of the Future: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

  5. Jul 23, 2024 · Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke's First Law : 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.

  6. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. #1 appeared as Clarke's Law in the original 1962 Profiles of the Future, with the cautious gloss that "elderly", in the disciplines of astronautics, Mathematics and Physics, means over 30. #2 can be found in the same chapter, though not designated as a law: it was termed ...

  7. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions. [2]

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