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12[[caption-width-right:350:Like an airliner, but with [[ElementalEmbodiment fire elementals]] [[AppliedPhlebotinum instead of engines]].]]
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14->''"Your ancestors called it magic... and you call it science. Well, I come from a place where they're one and the same thing."''
15-->-- '''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor Odinson]]''', ''Film/{{Thor}}''
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17Advanced, ubiquitous magic always seems to end up working just like technology. The car engine might be powered by a fire elemental, and the telephone may work through [[FunctionalMagic the principle of contagion]], but this doesn't affect the man on the street. They just get in the car and drive away, or pick up the phone and talk -- no special talent required, just as if the devices were technological.
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19Magitek (or "magitech") often appears to combine magic with modern technology or at least something distinctively mechanical: [[SteamPunk traditional]] heat engine or an electrical generator powered by or powering a magic spell, or a [[HumongousMecha giant mecha]] that can inexplicably shoot ice from an empty hand. SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic frequently causes this but isn't necessary, since a BlackBox is almost as good if it's reliable and cheap enough.
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21When Magitek is combined with [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism gritty realism]], we get DungeonPunk, but magitek is also common in comedic fantasy. In some works, technology is based on sufficiently advanced magic, which is itself disguised sufficiently advanced technology. FantasticScience leads to this because it treats magic ''as'' science; something to be studied and learned and experimented with.
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23There is "technomancy", the school of magic that specializes in controlling or improving existing technology with magic. In these circumstances the machine would work ''without'' the magic, but magic improves it. That, or it possesses it...
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25With all that said, a sci-fi setting with no supernatural/fantasy elements could readily substitute actual magic with alien phlebotinum in the equation.
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27The UrExample can be found in various ancient mythologies, each of which usually has a craftsman god who empowers their inventions with magic. For example, Myth/ClassicalMythology has Hephaestus, who created supernatural automatons by combining metallurgy with magic. The more modern TropeCodifier is Creator/RobertAHeinlein's 1940 novella "Literature/MagicInc". It takes place in a (then) present-day in which, for example, your taxi is a flying carpet, but otherwise the same (cabbie, meter, and so on). The TropeNamer is ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', where the [[TheEmpire Gestahlian Empire]] had suits of PowerArmor, dozens of HumongousMecha, and fleets of [[MiniMecha flying Mini Mecha]], armed with various lasers and missiles [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by the life essence]] of enslaved magical creatures. [[{{Woolseyism}} Courtesy of Ted Woolsey's translations]], this fantastic science and the inventions using it became known under the blanket term "Magitek."
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29Often involves the ScienceWizard (not to be confused with the purely technical TechnoWizard). Magitek is one of the hallmarks of ScienceFantasy works. May result from SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic. Also, UtilityMagic, which can sometimes manifest as this. Contrast with ClarkesThirdLaw, MagicFromTechnology, and PostModernMagik. See also HarmonyVersusDiscipline, RitualMagic, and AlchemyIsMagic.
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31See also MagicHarmsTechnology and ScienceDestroysMagic, where magic and science/technology are incompatible and/or interfere with each other.
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35* [[{{Magitek/Literature}} Literature]]
36* {{Magitek/Tabletop Games}}
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44* In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', the magical system underlying existence is likened to computer code, and manipulated accordingly.
45* In ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'', this is the product of Magus Craft, which uses magical power as a power-source rather than electricity.
46* Often shows up in works by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino:
47** Most obviously ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine'', which has a pair of American engineers TrappedInAnotherWorld who accomplish a [[OneManIndustrialRevolution Two Man Industrial Revolution]] and are producing HumongousMecha with both magic and electronics for other otherworlders, like the ''actual'' protagonist of the series, to pilot.
48** Even the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', paragon of RealRobot-ness, has it in the form of Psycommu weapons, though this may not technically qualify, as at the time it was made, many serious scientists were conducting research into PsychicPowers. But the fact that subsequent Gundam stories have continued to use the concept [[ScienceMarchesOn even after all the major psychic research was proved to be flawed or outright fraudulent]] places them firmly in Magitek territory.
49* ''Manga/BrokenBlade'' features a world where any form of technology more complex than a hand tool involves the use of magic to manipulate quartz. The lead character is unique in that he ''can't'' use that magic, thus rendering even personal vehicles unusable to him.
50* Opposing FMA, ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' uses UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}} as basically a synonym for Magitek. It is established early on that the rules for ''Buso Renkin'' is take an ordinary weapon, the lower-tech the better, and give it a magic power, i.e. rocket-propelled lance, [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang Precision Guided Chakrams]], ect.
51* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': This is rather rare due to the fact [[MagicVersusTechnology the science and magic sides are in a cold war at best and hate each other at worst]], many on the Science side either don't know or don't ''believe'' in magic, many of the Magic side don't see the point in immersing themselves into science beyond necessity, and that [[MutuallyExclusiveMagic in most cases magic and esper powers are incompatible for the same person to use]]. However, in ''New Testament'', [[spoiler:Kihara Yuiitsu in the midst of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge]] manages to create the Elements, which resemble giant translucent robots modeled after different kinds of animals and are powered by magical cores, by combining her scientific expertise of a [[spoiler:[[MadScientist Kihara]]]] with the knowledge of magic she obtains [[spoiler:from analyzing the [[HiveMind St. Germain virus]].]]
52* The plot of ''Anime/Cyborg009VsDevilman'' involves a MadScientist working for Black Ghost building a cyborg body for a demon to possess, in hopes of making the perfect killing machine.
53* The technology in the setting of ''Manga/TheDarkQueenAndIStrikeBack'' (up to and including advanced aircraft and a colossal railgun) is all powered by Techniques.
54* ''Literature/DemonKingDaimao'' has this in spades, from a quasi-robotic crow that sees your future (eliminating the need for a guidance counselor), to airships running off mana reactors, to [[spoiler: a god that's really an intensely complex computer system]].
55* ''Anime/DogDays'': The world of Flognarde has this trope merged with SchizoTech. Despite being a feudal society, they have telephones (limited to old-style wall-mounted models), firearms, broadcasting equipment (including cube-shaped "Jumbotrons") and the technology to host a full-on IdolSinger show complete with lasers, fog machines, and glowsticks. They do go into the specifics a little bit in a third season episode that explains that the tech is "Crystal Magic", based around naturally-occuring magical crystals which have many uses, including functioning like circuit boards. Technology does seemingly advance a bit over the course of the show, as in the third season Nanami and Leonmichelli use tablet-like devices to communicate with each other.
56* ''Manga/TheDungeonOfBlackCompany'' features a fantasy world that has underwent an industrial revolution with a large chunk of its technology powered by demonite crystals.
57* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Most of the technology is powered by magic, from cars and motorcycles to [[KillSat orbital laser satellites]]. Lacrima Crystals are crystals enchanted to cast specific magic, communication lacrima being crystal balls used for video calling. One character eventually develops a miniature version that perfectly resembles a smart phone, carrying much of the same limitations.
58* ''Franchise/FateSeries'': Magi in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''Literature/FateZero'' are generally averse to using technology in place of magic, which is the reason why [[CombatPragmatist Kiritsugu Emiya]] is considered a "Magic User" and not a "Magus" -- for example, his familiars are equipped with cameras so that they are not fooled by illusion magic, and his [[MagicWand Mystic Code]] is a Thompson Contender which uses [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells bullets made from his powdered bones]] in order to destroy other magi's Magic Circuits and render them useless.
59* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' brings this trope and its corollary round full-circle. In [=FMA=] the magic is the tech, and the tech is the magic. Specifically, look at the first chapter/first episode:
60--> '''Al''': "It's not magic, it's science!"
61** Meanwhile, the technology behind automail is handwaved. How do they have cybernetic prosthetic arms and legs when they're only at early 20th century tech?
62** This follows a sub-troping principal that, as Magic becomes more and more understood and studied, it becomes more and more akin to science, gaining specific rules and methods, rather than just "duuuuur, MAGIC!"
63* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' has the various supernatural races make use of a lot of technology that's powered by magic. Devils have cars, trains, aircraft and televisions (to name a few examples).
64* ''Literature/ICouldntBecomeAHeroSoIReluctantlyDecidedToGetAJob'': Daily life is a lot like modern Japan, with [=TVs=], telephone, AC, etc. Except that the cars are monster drawn carriages, and everything runs off magic instead of electricity. Plus the demons, spells, and all the other fantasy touches.
65* ''VideoGame/LapisReLights'': The world ''runs'' on this, with their cities being powered by mana instead of electricity. It's most obvious in "Orchestras" where the transforming, floating stages, the special effects, and the sound systems are spells cast by the witches performing and are fueled by mana from their audiences. This is also the specialization of Maryberry from Sugar Pockets, who is a magical GadgeteerGenius and a member of the MIT (Magical [=ITems=]) Research Club.
66* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'':
67** Constanze Braunschbank Albrechtsburger is a [[CuteWitch witch student]] who mixes magic with technology like a [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Spark.]] She made a RobotBuddy out of a Playstation-like console, flies a broom with a propeller-driven engine, made a manabolt firing shotgun, and magic powered microwave ovens, among other tricks.
68** [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 TV series]]: Professor Croix is introduced in Season 2 as a witch who uses advanced technology in conjunction with magic such as a smartphone as a wand and wifi routers that picks up magic from {{Ley Line}}s.
69* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': All over the place, though most notable in the third season where this is lampshaded by Fate giving an AsYouKnow speech about how the TSAB's civilization has discarded conventional technology because magic was safer and better.
70** Similarly, the ''[=StrikerS=]'' antagonist's primary cannon fodder consists of MechaMooks that are unique in Mid-Childa due to their lacking any magical capabilities at all and actively projecting fields that dampen magic around them.
71** ''Force'', has villains who are completely immune to magic, thus rendering all the protagonists' weapons and abilities useless in fighting them. They must invent new weaponry that leans more toward tech than magic to get around this.
72* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'': The country/planet Autozahm is an entirely "mechanized" industrial power that runs on [[LifeEnergy "Mental Energy"]] instead of electricity, which has screwed up their environment in addition to sending them into comas. So they've sent an invasion force made up of a spaceship and HumongousMecha to take over the more classical magic system of Cephiro, which itself has "rune gods" in the form of giant robots.
73* The world of Ordine in ''Manga/MagicArtisanDahliaWiltsNoMore'' is a fantasy-counterpart to Earth filled with monsters and magic. Magic Artisans like Dahlia make their living crafting magically-powered appliances (like hair dryers and portable cooktops powered by fire-magic stones) and materials imbued with supernatural properties (like fabrics made waterproof with concentrated slime essence or lip gloss that gets its shine from kraken scales).
74* ''Anime/MagicalProjectS'': Both Washu and a later character create and employ this.
75* ''Manga/MagilumiereCoLtd'': The force that magical girls wield to defeat Kaii is called "magic" and certainly looks like what we would call "magic," but it's actually treated like a science InUniverse, developed by engineers the way any ordinary technology would be. Akasaka explains in Chapter 38 how that technology involves harnessing a nutrient called "magitosin," which in layman's terms is magical power. Most magical girls deploy magic via "spells" that are pre-programmed into their wands, but Magilumiere takes a unique approach by having their magical girls work with engineers in real-time in order to produce spells that are best suited to deal with whatever situation they're currently facing.
76* ''Manga/{{MAR}}'' has [=ÄRMs=], magical jewelry with a variety of cool forms and abilities. Each ÄRM is a blueprint for a specific magical ability, such as summoning a giant guardian or [[WaveMotionGun shooting out huge beams of energy]] (in some cases, ''both''), among others. Justified since this gimmick is ''incredibly'' convenient, meaning that [=ÄRMs=] can be used by {{muggles}} for mundane activities.
77* In ''Literature/ModernMagicMadeSimple'', the modern magic the series prides itself on draws heavily from this. Spells involve MatrixRainingCode, but people like Yumiko still use a magic staff.
78* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The level of chakra research gets taken to this level by the time of ''Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie''. For instance, the full-size summoning scrolls in ''Naruto'' have been shrunk down to tiny proportions in ''Boruto'' and can be launched via a portable device that will automatically summon whatever was stored in it immediately after launch. In other words, at least one type of magic present in ''Naruto'' has developed beyond PowersAsPrograms and straight to Powers as Apps. The setting at large has also developed from a blurry MedievalStasis straight to the present, with chakra counterparts to air travel, television, video games, laptop computers (including ''the Internet''), construction equipment able to make high-rise skyscrapers, and smartphones. The inside of a typical house in the Hidden Leaf Village in Boruto's time is nearly indistinguishable from what you might expect in a middle-class house in the 21st-century Japan.
79* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' technology seems to have been more or less fully integrated with magic. Magic guns are considered antiques. The local RobotGirl runs partially on magic, and there's an entire Magic ''Internet'' that can be accessed by magic books ''or'' computers complete with program, hacking, and virus spells. Not to mention Magical Flying Warships such as the [[CoolAirship Paru-sama]][[labelnote:Specification]]A Goldfish-Style Aerofish with a high-propulsion-pentagram-18-prayer-spirit engine and anti-pirate military-grade armaments[[/labelnote]].
80** In the end, humanity [[spoiler:goes through a major magitek revolution, making it available to the general public and leading to colonization of the rest of the solar system getting very far underway by ''2017'']].
81** The SequelSeries ''Manga/UQHolder'' follows up on this; the first chapter involves phone apps that let you quick-cast spells as a plot point.
82* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', powers granted by the Devil Fruits are often used in very creative ways. Ace's sailboard is propelled thanks to his ability to generate flames, Captain Smoker's Blower Bike is powered by wind-catching wheels being blown by the smoke he generates, Mr 3's ship is also powered thanks to its owner's candle wax-generating superpowers, and Trafalgar Law can perform surgeries that doctors in the real world can only dream of. Eneru supplies himself electricity used to fly his Ark Maxim. The dials (seashells that can store kinetic energy, sound, light, fire and anything else depending on the version) and transponder snails might be seen as this, but is most likely OrganicTechnology. ''One Piece'' is a versatile manga indeed. Scientists like Vegapunk are also working to completely artificialize Devil Fruit powers, from giving their power to inanimate objects to [[spoiler:being able to synthetically produce them]].
83* ''Manga/{{Orion}}'' has a Buddhist/Hindu design style and a computing basis, such as talismans and seals for wake-up alarms, and reality-altering "dharmaquations", a mixture of computer program and mandala.
84* ''Manga/OutlawStar'': The Caster Gun was created by wizards to allow people in an age of low mana to use spells. This is the most powerful weapon in both Gene Starwind and Ron [=MacDougall's=] arsenal.
85* ''Anime/QueensBlade'': Alchemy seems to serve as the Magitek ''de jure'' of the setting, powering such things as the Hyper Vibration Armor or the automaton, Vingt.
86* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Ami "Sailor Mercury" Mizuno owns a literal MagicalComputer -- disguised as a compact, it vanishes when she doesn't need it and can detect all manner of magical and mundane phenomena. In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] it's actually just an interface for the actual supercomputer on the moon.
87* ''Anime/SonicX'': The seven Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald are described as magical, and their effect on Sonic and Shadow can be said to be magic, yet they're often used to power technological equipment such as Eggman's robots and the [[AbnormalAmmo Sonic Driver]].
88* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': Present in varying degrees between the witches and warlocks. The female witches tend to a more primitive steampunk-style of magitech while the technologically advanced male "warlocks" now use very little magic at all (there's only one "real" warlock left, and he's very old).
89* ''Manga/UltraManiac'' featured witches using computers to create magic spells for them. This was apparently not the only way to do so, however -- the main character, Nina, pretty much relies on this method because her magic skills are so poor.
90* In ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'', fossilized dragon hearts are dug up and used as a power source for the planet's HumongousMecha. Lord Dornkirk's technological empire seems almost entirely comprised of Magitek machinery. An early episode even featured a quarry for said dragon hearts that had its own HumongousMecha onsite... a [[MundaneUtility fossilized dragon heart-powered bulldozer.]] This is how [[spoiler: Dilandau used to be a little girl named Selena Schezar... and reverts to a female body at the end. Selena was kidnapped and used for "fate-alteration" experiments.]]
91* ''Manga/TheWitchAndTheBeast'' combines witches, magic and fantasy/gothic monsters in an Art Deco-inspired world filled with guns, zeppelins and sorcery industrialised within 1920s level of technology.
92* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' heavily blurs the lines of magic and technology in the second half of the show. The main antagonists are cyborgs and are never stated to have any magical connections, but they can shapeshift, teleport and levitate, among other magical-type abilities. Many of the powerful magic users in earlier seasons such as Yugi, Pegasus, and Marik are able to channel supernatural powers through a collectible card game and the machinery and computers that run their holographic arenas as well.
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96* The Technomancers in ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' are based on this. A Time Lord illustrates this by pointing out their communicators ''look'' like communicators, even with the same buttons, but when you crack them open, there's nothing recognisable there, because they're powered by "message spells".
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100* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Infidel uses magic to replicate technological functions, including audio/video recordings of events and artificial servants.
101* "Battlegods: Warriors of the Chaak", a miniseries by Creator/DarkHorseComics, has a futuristic Mayan take on this, such as cloned priests with their minds linked together to form a magical computer.
102* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
103** ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'': The ancient Amazonian sorceress Magda says the difference between magic and science no longer exist in the 853rd century. "Let's just say, I can still cook."
104** ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': Unlike most of the rings in the mythos, which are MagicFromTechnology, those of the [[UnstoppableRage Red Lantern Corps]] mix this with BloodMagic, and as such have very different [[VomitIndiscretionShot methods of use]] and [[BeatStillMyHeart limitations]].
105** ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Dr. Light examines villain Superwoman and concludes a combination of science and magic was used to alter Lucy Lane’s DNA and give her Kryptonian powers.
106--->'''Dr. Kimiyo Hoshi:''' Superwoman was infused with several strains of alien D.N.A. using a combination of science and magic, giving her extraterrestrial abilities.
107** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In some continuities, the Amazons have spent their years as a closed off society developing truly impressive combinations of magic and science like the invisible jet and the purple ray medical lenses.
108* ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'': In the Coffin Comics continuity, Hell has undergone a more modernized make over. In addition to hellish variations of human technology like trains and motorcycles, we also have machines for harvesting souls. New character Jake is also a [[{{Technopath}} technomancer]], a sorcerer who can manipulate technology and his body is implanted with demonic {{Nanomachines}}.
109* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
110** ''ComicBook/DeathsHead'': Death's Head was created with a mixture of technology and magic, originally intended as a replacement body for his creator.
111** In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', Mr. Fantastic considers magic a science that simply works with a different set of rules (albeit rules he can't quite comprehend, so he might be totally wrong). Doctor Doom has occasionally integrated the talent for sorcery he inherited from his mother into his inventions and schemes. At one point, Reed had to actually learn how to wield magic from Doctor Strange in order to fight Doom. He wasn't very good at it at first, until he realized that the key was to admit to himself [[RunsOnIgnorance that he had no idea what he was doing]].
112** ''ComicBook/{{Galactus}}'': It's a little unclear how much of Galactus' power comes from the Power Cosmic and how much comes from his very advanced technology. It's even less clear after he [[FusionDance merges]] with a swarm of [[KillerRobot Killer Robots]] that is his ComicBook/UltimateMarvel counterpart.
113** Some of the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' armours such as his Uru armor and Mysterium armor are as much supernatural in nature as they are cutting-edge MadScientist technology.
114** In ''ComicBook/ShangChi2020'' the villainous Sister Hammer creates a ChineseVampire army. Normally, only dead with an unresolved grudge can be reanimated in this way - so she uses implanted microchips to network them and connect their minds to ''someone else's'' grudge, circumventing this rule.
115** ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'': Dan Slott's series shows that Zenn-Lavians have a form of technology that combines science and sorcery called ''"Magitech"''. One of their applications for it was the Illumimatrix, a device that can leech or imprint culture itself on a planetary scale. Apparently, Zenn-Lavians stopped space exploration to curb their nasty habit of forcing other civilizations [[InTheirOwnImage into their own image]].
116* ''ComicBook/{{Mystic}}'', a Creator/CrossGen series, takes place in a world much like Earth, ca. TheRoaringTwenties, but with magic instead of technology. So you get Art Deco architecture paired with magical flying Model T-style taxicabs, for example. That's mostly the Nouveau Guild and their nation. Nouveau magic, as the name implies, runs on change, so coming up with new and interesting ways to use magic, and the corresponding changes in society, are what makes the magic work. Other nations on Cyress follow more stable systems of magic (barring [[CloudCuckooLand the Astral Guild]]) and don't have the Magitek.
117* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'': The Drummer is a [[{{Technopath}} machine telepath]] who can sense magic; his explanation is that magic is "cheat codes" that manipulate the mechanics of existence.
118* ''ComicBook/RatQueens'' features a necromancy-based communication device powered by souls that is effectively a cell phone (that only talks to dead people).
119* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
120** The Iron Queen, a Technomage who can control the electrical impulses found in all active electronics and send him out at will. As you can imagine, she's quite dangerous to opponents who are [[HollywoodCyborg partly]] or completely robotic.
121** Dr. Eggman, as a man of science, complains about [[GreenRocks Chaos Emeralds]] being their own explanation, and having no logic to their power. Snively reminds him that he powers his own technology with Chaos Emeralds on a regular basis; Eggman concedes, but points out that he doesn't have to ''like'' it.
122** In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'', both Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily come up with the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Chaos]] [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Devil]], stated to be a "fusion of magic and machine" (Chaos being a water god, Yellow Devil being a blob robot).
123* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': This pops up from time to time. One story had a doctor who could control the dead using a machine that combined quantum technology with Mayan death magic. He referred to this technique as voodootronics.
124* ''ComicBook/WizardsOfMickey'' has mages and dragons right alongside evil robotic armies and Goofy building a damn HumongousMecha.
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128* ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'': Marigold (the unicorn) can send and receive text messages with her mind. Her horn also amplifies satellite radio signals and is a [=WiFi=] hot spot.
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132* ''Fanfic/{{Antipodes}}'': All of the advanced LostTechnology is based on arcane principles and powered by magical crystals.
133* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': As in the MCU, Asgardian technology is much like this -- although the tech is sci-fi level to begin with. It all runs on magic, which is depicted as the fifth fundamental force of the universe (and the more of it you can gather together, the more you can affect the other four).
134* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' by Creator/AAPessimal:
135** Wizard Ponder Stibbons settles down as husband of an Assassin who has done much to revolutionise her profession, and they have three daughters. The youngest takes after her father in manner, outlook and inclination. Ruth Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons is also a catch-net for inspiration particles. Combined with a practical and creative streak, among other things she works out how the Guitar that caused havoc in the canonical work ''Literature/SoulMusic'' can be reproduced using Magitek. Her first experiment is with an amplified bass guitar. At the current point on her timeline, having proven it works on a four-stringed bass, she is applying the concept to a six-stringed guitar and has plans for adapting it to keyboards. Her father, who saw the original Guitar, is yet to cotton on. A collection of Imp helpers with names like [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]], [[Music/{{Cream}} Jack]], [[Music/DeepPurple Ritchie]] and Hammond are closely associated.
136** Elsewhere, the Ankh-Morpork City Air Watch is an Air Force that runs almost completely on Magitek. Its commanding officers, Witches who have helped push the concept of broomstick flight, have heard of mad ideas, like having an airframe powered by some sort of engine that turns a propellor which then screws its way through the air. They are duly sceptical about the chances of flight powered by other means than magic. Read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13154617/1/The-Price-of-Flight more in]] ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight''.
137* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/1149623 Disillusion, by Hermione Granger]]'': Harry Potter, turned into a weapon by the Ministry after the Prophecy was made, decides to take revenge on the magical world when it turns on him and his best friend, Neville Longbottom. He studies the scientific principles behind magic and ends up creating incredibly advanced technology (artificial gravity, teleportation, matter manipulation). This eventually leads to the destruction of the Magical World as it is forced out of its self-imposed exile.
138* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Mercury's highly scientific approach to magic results in this. To date: giant scythe-wielding battle robots, airships, gem synthesizers, and [[NoKillLikeOverkill chlorine trifluoride]].
139* ''Fanfic/TheDuskGuardSaga'' has magical crystals that are used in everything from magilights to toys to armor to golems. However, enchanting all but the smallest and simplest of crystals is extremely dangerous and time-consuming, and as such, Magitek is heavily supplemented with [[SteamPunk steam power]].
140* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'': In "Smurfette's Inner Beauty", Hogatha the witch uses a magic mirror social network called Magebook in order to find a date. The Smurfs themselves use magic mirrors for computers and {{Video Phone}}s.
141* ''Fanfic/{{Emperor|MarquisBlack}}'': The Northern Kingdom's scientists collaborate with many wizards and witches to develop new ideas that mix magic and technology, such as [[spoiler:working ArtificialIntelligence, special cannons that can disintegrate their target in one shot, and genetic grafting in adults]].
142* ''Fanfic/EndlessPantheon'', a ''Literature/DresdenFiles''/''Series/StargateSG1'' fusion fic, has all Goa'uld, Asgard, Ancient, and Nox technology is in fact magitek. In one example, Harry notes that the healing sarcophagus is actually a ritual device that uses necromancy to repair the body and is powered by a nuclear reactor. This also justifies the extravagant weapon and armor designs of the Goa'uld. After the GreatOffscreenWar, the Goa'uld have lived in fear of the Nevernever for millennia. The full body iron armor and melee weapons of jaffa are designed to counter faeries while the fancy ship decorations are in fact wards to prevent intrusions from the Nevernever.
143* ''Fanfic/EquestriaAcrossTheMultiverse'': The development of this is a major plot point. While Equestria has some magitek, including the Portal Casters used for dimensional travel that kickstarts the plot, it takes off big time when they encounter the world ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' is set in. While having very little overt magic, they do have far more advanced technology than Equestria Prime does. After FirstContact is made and Ponyland enters the Alliance, development on combining Equestria Prime's advanced magic with their advanced technology creates a gigantic technology boom. This also includes superweapons for dealing with {{Kaiju}} level threats, such as Seiryu (a Magitek Mechagodzilla) and the Great Harmony (a gigantic flying super battleship). Things only increase from there as more and more worlds join the Alliance and pool their knowledge and resources.
144* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': All of the factions use technology that makes use of spiritual energy to some degree.
145** The Quincy use technology to aid them the most, in the form of VTOL craft and tanks that can fire Quincy arrows for use in Hueco Mundo, etc.
146** Twilight's research focuses on combining spiritual energy and technology with magic. She's already made some progress, like Sugarcoat's visor and Indigo Zapp's legs.
147** Grogar's self-experimentation and augmentation makes him look like a {{Cyborg}} in Resurrección form.
148* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'': Almost all instances of advanced technology seen in ''Fallout'' are given this treatment, right down to nuclear weapons being replaced with [[FantasticNuke magical bombs that are just as deadly if not more so]]. Even computers seem to run on magic in these stories.
149* ''Fanfic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness:''
150** In the alternate ending, Coop combines Patchouli's [[AllYourPowersCombined "Philosopher's Stone"]] card with Megas's systems, creating his first and only bonafide Spell Card.
151** The Extra Stage answers the question of what would happen if Megas was as overpowered as [[spoiler: Reimu, who uses herself as a LivingBattery to bestow the mech with her powerset]].
152* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheInvincibleTechnomage'': Harry experiments with building a magic-powered computer.
153* ''Fanfic/AGrowingAffection'' has ninjas using cellular phone with jutsu built in so that rivals/enemies cannot trace them; Kakashi does not trust that is 100% effective. Also a minor character is a computer programmer asked to create a system to monitor chakra interactions.
154* ''Fanfic/AnISOTInGrimdark'': After arriving into the TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy world, the German engineers quickly get to work on adapting their technology for the setting. They start off with a [[TheLittleDetecto "magic indicator"]] for detecting hidden magic users or potentially dangerous magical artifacts. It isn't long though before they start building [[spoiler:suits of PoweredArmor, and even using Magitek to power their ''manned space program'']].
155* ''Fanfic/LightDarknessAndParadox'': Ruby eventually learns how to make magical ammunition; a necessity after she runs out of Dust ammunition and can't get any Dust to make more.
156* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHK43TJoVNRJ85mxMLzWT9bDTViWzNHUM Lyrish]]'', by [=TheInvertedShadow=]: [[spoiler:Robo-Lyra]], who is fully robotic but has the same range of magical abilities that her flesh-and-blood counterpart does. Similarly, [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the Puppet]] has the ability to spawn animatronics out of thin air.
157* ''Fanfic/{{Marionettes}}'': Twilight mentions Mana Engines charged by unicorn magic. [[spoiler:It turns out the robotic ponies (the titular Marionettes) are powered by mana engines, but produce their own mana. Trixie also is shown to have a magic wand in place of her horn.]]
158* ''Fanfic/MaybeTheLastArchieStory'': Mad Doctor Doom circumvents the laws of physics, which say that time travel is impossible, by creating a magically-powered time machine. It looks like a strange but ordinary cubic device, if you don't notice the helpless witch hooked up to it -which the device drains power from-, and the odd symbols on plastic overlays, arranged around it.
159* ''Fanfic/MrAndMrsGold'': The [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Time Clock Dragon]] is a magical cuckoo-clock within Rumpelstiltskin’s collection that comes to life when the clock strikes midnight, briefly coming to life and doing a dancing puppet-show that [[TomesOfProphecyAndFate predicts future events]]. While Rumpel finds it an annoyance, Belle enjoys the stories it tells.
160--> '''Wooden Puppet:''' Ladyfleas and gentlefarts, may I present to you tonight's tale... [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS1E3SnowFalls Charming Snow]]!
161* ''Fanfic/MyChoicesTwistedTalesThroughTime'': The future version of Equestria, as seen starting in Chapter 8, makes common use of "magitechnology", gem-based technology intended to be useable by anyone. Examples include what are essentially magical versions of computers, [=iPads=], holographic picture cameras, and audio recorders.
162* ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/a-nerubians-journey.108612/ A Nerubian's Journey]]'': Among the first magic exercises learned by aspiring Viziers is to convert arcane magic into fire and ice. By imbuing these into silk, Krivax has refrigeration and cooking elements in his kitchen.
163* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/43509/outside-the-reaching-sky Outside the Reaching Sky]]'': The ponies of Equestria launch an advanced space program after [[spoiler: encountering a human from a parallel universe who provides them with a computer core containing the entire conventional and magitechnological base of a highly advanced culture, plus the means to access it]].
164* ''Fanfic/RoyalHeights'' has Utopia which provides jets able to fly fast enough to rip through dimensions and into new ones, a metal chip that sends your consciousness into a new body, and what appears to be a universal mail system. But unlike other examples, Utopia tries to pretend all of their work is purely scientific. The witch of the story reveals that all of this couldn't be possible without magical assistance.
165* ''Fanfic/StarlightOverDetrot'': Almost everything runs on arcanoelectrics -- a combination magic, runes and alchemy -- from the automobiles to the toasters (that regularly turn toast blue).
166* ''Webcomic/StarMares'' abandons all pretense that the technology of the ''Star Wars'' verse is based on scientific principles -- it's all powered by "magic reactors".
167* ''Fanfic/StarTrekPhoenix'': During Season 2, Sunset and Twilight begin to incorporate Equestrian magical engineering into the ''Phoenix''[='=]s sensory arrays by creating a mechanism to transform energy from the ship's warp core into magic in order to power sensors meant to detect magic signatures.
168* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', the Fans operate via magitek, largely through computers.
169* In ''Fanfic/ExitumEternal'', the Exitum runs on a mixture of magic and science. Interestingly, the Citadel races believe that this is actually some kind of advanced technology that either the Exitum does not fully understand, or their translators are unable to impart the concept.
170* ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOkay'': Ever since Ron got an interest in Muggle space travel, his goal throughout the story is to invent working magical rockets and travel to the moon. For his OWL Runes project, he manages to invent self-refilling fuel tanks, and for his NEWT project, he invents a full rocket ship prototype with features like an Unbreakable superstructure, charms used on broomsticks for maneuvering, and a Protean charmed alchemic silver globe for navigation.
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174* In ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', (and to a lesser extent Creator/DianaWynneJones's [[Literature/HowlsMovingCastle book of the same name]] on which it was loosely based) the structure is maintained by the wizard's magic. Moreover, the kingdoms of the world which the film takes place actively make use of witches and wizards to fight in wars, in addition to more standard weapons and tactics.
175* A lot of the magic in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' works by application of their {{Power Crystal}}s. Lamps are lit by touching the crystal to it something like a match and the stone fish-shaped vehicles have a mystical activation process of sticking the crystal in a hole, turning it halfway around, and then a quarter turn back, which is basically the motion of turning a key in a car's ignition. However, you've got to keep your hand on the inscription pad ''while doing it''. This is written on the vehicle, but when your people were stuck in flood-survival bunkers long enough to forget how to read their own writings...
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179* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': Sending Stones are like magical walkie-talkies, even having feedback if used too close to each other. However, they only work for an hour.
180* ''Film/{{Equinox}}'' is one of the oldest examples and may be the oldest put to film. The symbol magic in the film is explicitly treated like a science.
181-->''...Manipulation of these symbols is treated exactly like the science of chemistry. This element changes that one, one symbol is a catalyst, another is an agent or a counteractant.''
182* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
183** ''Film/{{Thor}}'' is an interesting example, because while ClarkesThirdLaw is in full effect (as Jane Foster puts it, "Magic's just science we don't understand yet"), it hasn't yet reached the levels of this trope. Specific items like weapons and clothing are imbued with incredible properties, and the Asgardians have the ability to make pinpoint wormholes and use anti-gravity to lift entire skyscrapers high in the air... but they still use (presumably genetically engineered) horses. There's a lot of cultural tradition at work here.
184** Taken further in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', where we are introduced to the Dark Elves, a civilization preceding even the Asgardians, who have advanced spacecraft, energy rifles and black hole grenades, but also make use of magic-like energy-manipulation.
185** Loki and Freya establish that yes, in addition to Asgard's fantastical technology, they also use honest-to-goodness magic.
186** The weapons used by HYDRA, the Nazis' Deep Science Division led by Johann Schmidt/The Red Skull in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', are using the Cosmic Cube/Tesseract that the Asgardians used beforehand as a power source.
187* ''Film/NightworldLostSouls'' has the Frequency Harmonizer, a mechanical device invented by Thomas Edison that allows living people to communicate with ghosts.
188* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The Jedi are within spitting distance of this, although they're more a matter of magic coexisting with a technological world than of magic displacing technology. In the [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], attempts to design technology that uses the Force are mostly the province of the DarkSide for some reason.
189** Lightsabers and holocrons can only be built by using the Force -- the khyber crystals that power them only respond to Force-users, and in some cases are directly created through specialized Force techniques.
190** One example involves a Sith destroyer designed by a technologically-minded Sith Lord during Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic days to use a BrainComputerInterface with a powerful Force user in order to boost the ship's systems, turning the destroyer into a superweapon capable of wiping out fleets on its own. The ships hyperdrive channels energy directly from Darth Karrid to allow it to travel at unheard of before speeds. She uses the Force to fine-tune the ship's targetting sensors to be able to pick off any ship, even a SpaceFighter, with a precision shot.
191** ''Film/RogueOne'' low-key turns the ''Death Star'' into this trope. In the current canon, the station's lasers are powered by Kyber crystals, the same crystals that are a central component to building lightsabers, and have a natural connection to the Force.
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195!!!'''Series:'''
196* The characters in ''Series/AceLightning'' claim that the [[MacGuffin Amulet of Zoar]] (amongst other things) is fueled by magic... But they are all actually video game characters brought to life [[LightningCanDoAnything by a bolt of lightning]] so technically...
197* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Fred and Wesley create a technomystical device to aid Angel.
198* The Technomages in ''Series/BabylonFive'' and the SpinOff ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' are an inversion. They are described as "people who use technology to imitate the effects of magic".
199* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
200** During the first two seasons we had Jenny Calendar, a self-described techno-pagan, who occasionally combined divination and other arcane abilities with computers and the Internet.
201--->"You think the realm of the mystical is limited to ancient texts and relics? That bad old science made the magic go away? The divine exists in cyberspace same as out here."
202** In the comics, provided by the Twilight group to try and give Amy an advantage against Willow.
203* ''Series/DoctorWho''
204** In "The Masque of Mandragora", an EldritchAbomination is manipulating the [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Cult of Demnos]] in Rennaisance Italy to carry out an AlienInvasion. The Doctor examines a cult mask and identifies it as "Predeluvian sandstone with a complex circuit of base metal fused into it."
205** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield "Battlefield"]], [[Myth/ArthurianLegend the Arthurian characters]] come from a magitek universe. In fact, when discussing how one of their spaceships worked, the Doctor goes so far as to point out to Ace that not only is [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic]], but that the reverse is true as well.
206* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Many of the feats of engineering seem aided by magic. The Wall is far larger than normal architecture should allow and Valyrian steel is supernaturally sharp.
207* ''Series/{{Ghosted}}'' has the Cronos machine from “The Machine”. Built in the early 1800's, it was designed as an experimental medical treatment intended to enhance people’s life spans. However, it’s powered by a cursed South American tree containing evil spirits which induce invincibility. This combination makes it an ImmortalityInducer that steals the blood and life force of people placed upon it and allows them to be absorbed by the machine’s owner, making them immortal.
208* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' uses this trope frequently in the Heisei era; most commonly the [[TransformationTrinket Transformation Belt]] will be a piece of modern technology made to harness the power of ancient, mystical artifacts so that normal people can safely use them.
209** The Rider suits in ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'' draw their power from ancient magical cards holding divine creatures called Undead.
210** In ''Series/KamenRiderW'', both the heroes and the villains use Gaia Memories, which are USB drive-like devices which hold knowledge from the mind of the planet itself.
211** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' plays this trope as straight as it can be, as the Riders explicitly use magic, but require rather technological looking belts to do so. The main weapon of TheHero is also a sword, which turns into a gun, that shoots magical homing bullets. [[spoiler: Justified. As the BigBad of the series combined science and sorcery to become a wizard himself, as well as creating the other wizards through this process.]]
212** The Lock Seeds, which are used as {{Transformation Trinket}}s by the Riders in ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' are pieces of magical fruit from another dimension converted by technology created by normal humans.
213** In ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'', the protagonists have {{Transformation Trinket}}s that contain the souls of historical figures like UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi and UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison.
214* In ''Series/{{Knightmare}}'' this was the villain, Lord Fear's hat.
215* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': The first season finale reveals that Camarilla, an ancient witch-hunting sect, has figured out how to combine the vocal chords harvested from witches with tech to replicate witches' vocal abilities.
216* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
217** The series is filled with magic/technology hybrid gear. We ''start'' with an [[WizardsFromOuterSpace ancient alien wizard]] in a high-tech command center that runs the Rangers' gear by channeling the power of the vaguely-defined Morphin' Grid versus an alien witch released from [[SealedEvilInACan the can]] by astronauts. HumongousMecha powered by the spirits of dinosaurs. MagiBabble and TechnoBabble combined by RobotBuddy Alpha. The entire "Zordon era" of the franchise was characterized by this, and while the later stand alone series tend to be magical ''or'' technological, a few later series have gone back to it (and the Grid is the source of ''all'' Ranger powers.) [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Spiritual energy-powered]] {{BFG}}, anyone?
218** Particularly prevalent in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', where the newly-minted teen sorcerers have their wands turned into cell phone morphers to better blend in. They cast spells by plugging in "spell codes" (aka dialing a number).
219* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' also very often uses the same as its sister series and adaptation above, throguhout it though, there's some more prominent examples.
220** The first series in the franchise to apply this trope is ''Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger''. While the motiff of the series is vehicles and as always they use a large mecha, the team's powers derive from the magic of their ally Seelon, the last fairy alive, who Dr. Dazai specifically built all the team's equipment to be powered by.
221** ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' is ''the'' magic-themed season of the series, as the titular team become and learn to be mages to stop an invasion. Their spells are done by dialing numbers in their flip-phone changers.
222** Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger features a team of angels that drag the powers of their mecha and gear from ancient angelic-powers.
223!!!'''Made-for-TV Movies:'''
224* The MadeForTVMovie ''Paradox'' is ''made'' of this trope -- at least until they visit the science-based world. Every desk has a magical computer with a HolographicTerminal displaying InstantRunes, and every character carries a scrying crystal cellphone. There are also cars and freezers. Notably, however, nobody really ''understands'' how any of these things work, which is why science looks more attractive to the main characters.
225* ''Film/TheStoneTape'' involves English scientists trying to develop a new recording technology to compete with Japan. When they realise they're in a HauntedHouse and believing that the ghost is a LivingMemory, they try to study the phenomena in the hope of developing a new technology. It doesn't end well.
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229* ''Music/KidsPraise'': Psalty's Songmobile invention from the fourth album is a vehicle made of musical instruments, and since it only works properly if its user is praising God from his or her heart and makes ugly noises if it the user isn't, it's implied that the vehicle is a theurgistic variant of this.
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233* The Deus Machina of ''{{VisualNovel/Demonbane}}'' are HumongousMecha-esque magical constructs summoned from ancient tomes, except for one: the titular Demonbane, a still grimoire-powered but otherwise man-made giant robot. In theory, that means it should not be as strong as a "true" Deus Machina. In practice, however, it and its pilots go on to work miracles.
234* In ''VisualNovel/MagicalDiary'' this turns out to be [[spoiler: utterly forbidden. Ellen tries to experiment and it almost gets her expelled.]]
235* Magic machines are ubiquitous in ''VisualNovel/AnOctaveHigher''. Every single piece of technology in the kingdom of Overture, from drinking fountains to film projectors to flying cars to factory assembly lines and furnaces, requires magic to function; if you don't have enough {{Mana}} to cast spells, you can't even take a shower because the water is being summoned via magic.
236* Engine Machines in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth'' appear to work like this, though the story tries to deny it. But with the precedent set by its predecessor ''VisualNovel/SekienNoInganock'' it becomes hard to deny.
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240* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
241** All advanced technology is powered by Dust, a magical substance, whose properties vary depending on the type of Dust. While the technology of that world is quite advanced by our standards, space flight is still an impossibility for them, as Dust stops working in orbit. This also means no satellites. [[spoiler:Because of this, the Kingdom's of Remnant lose contact with each other once the Cross-Continental Transit System tower in Beacon is taken out by a Wyvern at the end of Volume 3. However, General James Ironwood later converts Amity Colosseum into Amity Communications Tower in order to restore communications with the other Kingdom's and warm them about BigBad Salem.]]
242** As of Volume 7, [[spoiler:Penny's been revealed to be this, being an android with a core powered by a piece of her creator's aura. By the end of the volume, she gets access to real magic, too, becoming the Winter Maiden.]]
243** Atlas is a [[FloatingContinent floating city]] whose levitation is powered by [[spoiler:the Relic of Creation, one of the four surviving Relics of the gods' power]].
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247* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', the visible Sky Castle is described as being an "ancient flying techno-magic castle". There's also [[strike:Warmech]], [[PaperthinDisguise that completely human chap with the laser]], and the Datasphere, a powerful data-storing device that will [[MySkullRunnethOver drive you insane if you read it]].
248* ''Webcomic/AliceAndTheNightmare'': everything in Wonderland, from mini-fridges to carriages (without horses) is powered by dream energy of Earth humans.
249* ''Webcomic/ApricotCookies'': In Chapter 2's intro, the Director of Darkness shows off his brand-new 84" CrystalBall with 6 HDMI ports and 4K resolution, as though it were a plasma screen TV.
250* ''Webcomic/BasketsOfGuts'': [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Homunculi]]-based magic batteries are used in every piece of technology from quite complicated to [[MundaneUtility completely trivial]].
251* ''Webcomic/BeachesAndBasilisks'' has giant robots powered by a combination of magic and technology. Also, several character carry spellphones, which are magically-enabled cellphones.
252* ''[[http://brokenspacecomic.com Broken Space]]'' features technology powered by a combination of gears, steam, and mystical glyphs.
253* ''Webcomic/{{Chirault}}'' has two-way radios and what appears to be a city-wide public announcement system, presumably powered by magic because it's a pseudo-Medieval fantasy setting.
254* ''Webcomic/CrimsonFlag'' has airships with cannons that fire energy blasts, both magic. And crystal balls used as videophones.
255* It's kept in the background but also present in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' with things like [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1052.php ghirphon based public transit]].
256* The world of ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' abounds with this sort of thing. Some examples include:
257** Using crystals (which may or may not be of the "ball" archetype) to communicate like telephones.
258** Small crystals enchanted with a "Voice of the Titans" spell to make microphones.
259** Creating lamps/light bulbs out of something carrying an illumination spell.
260** Taking musical instruments, e.g. guitars, and adding a healthy dose of electrical magic to create electric guitars.
261** [[spoiler:The epilogue involves the entire planet choosing this, as humans unlock their technological potential through an industrial revolution while the orcs handle their awakened shaman magic. The end result will likely involve multiple breakthroughs in magitek.]]
262* In ''Webcomic/DragonMango'', magitek is technology that is powered by magic-generating reactors. It was outlawed in most countries after a Magitek reactor blew up the technologically advanced city of Square One[[note]]The capital survived, but the surrounding areas are now a magical-radioactive wasteland that hasn't died down in 200 years[[/note]].
263** As a by-product, Magic produces chaos energy, which causes the laws of physics to shut down. The minuscule amount generated by typical spells is harmless, but Magitek reactors generate massive amounts of magic, and by extension, massive amounts of chaos, which could theoretically result in continent-wide destruction.
264** And then there's the chaos filters; by using human sacrifices in technology-based magic siphoning, Magitek can achieve greater power generation than a thousand Magitek reactors.
265* In a subscription-only section of the ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' website, there's an on-going story arc about the Drow society 100 000 years in the future (from the main story's point), Space Age, where mana powers and controls EVERYTHING (including but not limited to spaceship flight, weapons, wormhole travel, faster-than-light communications, their internet...), to the point where their first encounter with "Earth humans" goes undetected because their traditional sensors are incapable of detecting objects that are not infused with mana at long range, although one of the characters eventually creates bio-signature detectors to good effect.
266* In ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'', Walter is a [[GadgeteerGenius magitek engineer]] and comes from a [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis nation]] that excels in it. His and [[AwesomeByAnalysis Sal's]] knowledge of magical theory also allows them to [[AntiMagic dissect]] and [[BadassBookworm formulate]] spells, even though they themselves [[BadassNormal cannot cast]] them.
267* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': While the [[TransformationRay transformation gun]] is a piece of [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum alien technology]] -- with different forms programmed on Tedd's computer and replaceable parts -- it definitely uses magic to operate. However, there's not very much magitek in the setting. (Unless you consider the Uryuom-human hybrids as biomagitek.) Tedd ''thought'' [[spoiler: he'd turned a Nintendo Powerglove into a device that could enchant objects, but it turned out he had a natural gift for that he knew nothing about, and the glove wasn't doing anything]].
268* [[RobotGirl GAMMA]] of ''Webcomic/EQGCrossover'' is powered by Equestrian magic (how, her creators don't know, considering they were [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext drunk when they made her]]). It unfortunately causes her to suffer PowerIncontinence.
269* Implied to be widespread in ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'' considering the programs named at [[WizardingSchool Levinworth Academy]] are "Magic Theory and Technology" and "Magical Use and Engineering". Additionally autocasters seems to be a cross between wands, guns, and computers.
270* [[http://www.heroes-comic.com Heroes Inc.]] is a sprite comic whose plot ties in heavily to that of the TropeNamer ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', and as would be expected, the comic makes significant use of magitek borrowed from the game.
271* In ''Webcomic/{{Gaia}}'' there are [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/2012/01/17/the-red-hall-032/ cameras]], [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/2012/10/09/shadowdancers-052/ cable cars]], [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/2013/01/01/shadowdancers-075/ sophisticated security systems]], etc, all which run on magic.
272* From ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081205 side story]]:
273--> '''Agatha''' as '''Cinderella''': Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable [[ForScience from science!]]"
274* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'':
275** [[GadgeteerGenius Kat]] was rather bewildered to find out that a "[[SuperPrototype prototype]]" robot has no recognizable power source or drive system whatsoever, but as soon as you insert a PersonalityChip he starts moving around on his own. Old "robots" turned out to be very fancyful, mechanically sound {{golem}}s. What one might call their "integrated circuits" are actually runic symbols carved on their interior parts; these can be damaged as easily as a normal circuit, but are somewhat easier to repair.
276** Mrs. Donlan has a computer that includes "just enough etheric technology" to allow it to perform its task. Which is to ward off a dangerous spirit.
277** However, despite its preponderance, the Court at large apparently frowns on Magitek as cheating.
278* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has very advanced technology and magic existing side by side intially. They start to blend later; for example one character uses a combination of UsefulNotes/{{alchemy}} and Boolean logic to combine a CrystalBall with a [[MagicalComputer super computer]] to see all locations at once.
279* From [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0109.html this]] ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'': "Misho, how is this cart bigger on the inside than the outside?" "I know ''magic science''."
280* In ''Webcomic/{{Kaspall}}'' mirrors are used like phones, with [[http://www.kaspall.com/comic/2006/08/05 operators]].
281* Society in ''Webcomic/LeifAndThorn'' runs on spelltech, e.g. with magical multi-purpose crystals standing in for smartphones.
282* Daria of ''Webcomic/AMagicalRoommate'' is a pioneer of Magitek, as it is a school of magic that remains unnamed.
283* ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'' is littered with it but the most noticeable is the Bio Warp drive, FTL through magic.
284* In ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'', "Stamps" are used to infuse wood or metal with one or several of the 7 magical elements (Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Frost, Light, and Spirit) to create stoves, lamps, refrigerators, water filteration systems, etc. Light stamps are also used as a form of electricity.
285* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
286** Discussed/lampshaded in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0344.html this strip]] when Vaarsuvius comments on how Cliffport looks anachronistic for a "presumed medieval time period". Also quotes Niven's corollary when trying to rationalize Durkon's response of "It be magic."
287** Seen in various magical luxuries like Xykon's widescreen CrystalBall and "Teevo" magical video recorder.
288** A coffee maker is also seen which, despite being seen plugged into a power outlet, can be surmised to work off of magic.
289* In ''Webcomic/TheRedStar'', warfare makes heavy use of technology and magic in combination.
290* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': [[http://smbc-comics.com/comic/google Google]] search is revealed to be run by ghosts of the damned, not AI. It's okay, they're damned anyway, this is just a different form of torture.
291* ''Webcomic/TheStoryOfAnima'' has [[http://tapastic.com/episode/50809 Catalysts]], minerals that allow [[SoulPower Anima power]] to be harnessed into technology.
292* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', most Racconnan technology is powered by lux, which technically [[DoingInTheWizard isn't magic but is commonly mistaken for it]]. And they seem to still use it [[Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger in the interstellar age]], [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00074.html even more, with few wizard types.]]
293* ''Webcomic/TwiceBlessed'' apparently has giant magic robots (golems, warforged, constructs).
294* ''Webcomic/UseSwordOnMonster''
295** Agent Haung specialises in this. She has a tablet computer that can hack spells and duplicate their effects, with an InstantRunes app selection that Oz describes as "Like Apple had started making tarot cards".
296** This also seems to be the standard operating procedure of the dwarven company Arcforge. Their most notable creations in the story so far are "thaumites", which are magical {{nanotech}}, leading inevitably to magical [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg]] and magical GreyGoo.
297* In ''Webcomic/TheWotch'', the T.C.D. (Transparent Cylinder of Death, which doesn't actually kill people) is a machine that can permanently [[GenderBender changes males into females]] and strengthens their feminine pride.
298* ''{{Webcomic/Wychwood}}'': The world's "magic" runs on rules similar to computer coding, accessed through wearable interfaces called "casters" which project control panels that humans can use to create new spells or trigger existing ones; these spells are capable of creating and manipulating both energy and solid matter.
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302* The Online RPG ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' features a lizard/human race called the Drakel. They use incredible knowledge of both Magic and Science to create armor and weaponry that is implausible even on our scale. The blend of magic and science is called "Magiscience." It is possible for the player to obtain several Drakel-made items (including PoweredArmor, an [[DeflectorShield energy shield]], and a rocket launcher [temporarily]), and one quest involves hunting and killing [[TwentyBearAsses 10 assassin DrakBots]] for their power crystals in order to create a sword.
303* In ''Literature/ArcanaMagi'', Mana is a source of energy akin to electricity, with kinetic and potential types. Avalon Tech Enterprises invents machines and magical items that uses Mana as its energy source to operate.
304* In Literature/DeucalionChronicles, worlds that are part of the Crossworld Union possess an astounding level of magic-based technology.
305* ''Roleplay/EquestriaChronicles'' has [[GenderBender transgender pins,]] [[ClockworkCreature Tabitha the tinkercorn]], [[CoolCar and Tinkertop's autocart.]] All magic powered.
306* Guan Lu has a prophecy-generating computer in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' Even [[FlatEarthAtheist Cao Cao]] is impressed.
307* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell spaceship]] captured by the [[TheMenInBlack Fortean Studies Bureau]] is found to have demonic rituals powering at least some of its system. NASA later has the idea of doing something similar (though probably without using the Roswell incident as inspiration, given its classified nature), as they use all kinds of [[DeflectorShields magic wards]] and other mystical doodads to create a working Martian lander to one-up the Soviet moon landing.
308* Jeffrey Channing Wells's short story "[[https://scrivnarium.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/half-an-hour-til-lunch-at-the-black-priory Half an Hour 'Til Lunch at the Black Priory]]" is set at the magical equivalent of a computer help desk, and also includes a kind of smartphone created by holding a small scrying pool between two plates of glass.
309* ''Podcast/MetamorCity'' is a world where technology developed alongside magic, it can be hard to tell whether a given device is magical or technological.
310* In ''Literature/{{Phaeton}}'' the Phaetonians were masters of magic and science and of couse the combination of the two, few races have ever cracked the so called "Metatech Code".
311* In an episode of ''Podcast/PlumbingTheDeathStar'', Zammit argues the {{Masquerade}} in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' is bad because wizards and muggles could be working together to make, in his words, "A MEGA-NUKE" by combining magic and science.
312-->'''Jackson''': No, a nuke with a dragon in it!
313-->'''Zammit''': With '''three dragons'''!
314* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The GOC makes use of magitech frequently, including magical sensors and casting spells on tablets and with computers.
315** The Foundation themselves have also used some of their anomalies to construct various impossible pieces of technology. Examples include [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2669 SCP-2669]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2798 SCP-2798]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/olympia-project the Olympia Project]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/djkaktus-s-proposal djkaktus's Proposal I]].
316* In ''Literature/SixChances'', individuals called Conductors can channel vitae through the use of devices called conductors. Cue magic, a light show, and cool accessory-flaunting.
317* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' goes out of its way to make a modern world built purely on a [[StandardFantasySetting D&D-styled-setting]].
318* ''United Liberators Coalition'' roleplay is full of magitech of various degrees, however requiring the rather expensive [[AppliedPhlebotinum Red Matter]] as a catalyst. Said tech ranges from [[AbsurdlySharpBlade magically sharpened swords]], to AK-47s that can use '''anything''' as ammo, to overpowered magitech F-35s flown by wizards and even [[CoolAirship magic-powered airborne battleships]].
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322* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Season 2 reveals Amphibia is host to the long-disused underground ruins of automated robot-building factories with advanced technology. At the season's end, it's revealed that these factories actually used the dimension-breaching power of the Calamity Box as their main power source to function [[spoiler: -- them and every other piece of advanced weaponry that Amphibia's lost civilization left behind, such as Newtopia's royal palace which is actually a cannon-equipped OminousFloatingCastle]].
323* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Or Hextech, as Jayce calls it, which involves drawing specific magic from crystals through technology instead of through innate skill. It's first used to build a Hexgate that can propel airships half away across the continent but its ability to power smaller objects like [[{{Powerfist}} Atlas Gauntlets]] or lasers becomes more and more important.
324* The ''[[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' franchise features multiple types of martial arts-based elemental magic referred to as "bending", which is often used to help operate various technologies. In fact, it's implied that there are more ''peaceful'' uses for bending than there are combat uses. This makes sense given that bending, while uncommon, is not so much seen as a superpower as a special talent in the Avatar-verse (like double jointed or photographic memory), so people would use it for a variety of purposes.
325** In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the four main societies rely heavily on this, to the point where their technology parallels our own despite the mid-19th-century-esque setting. In fact, non-magical complex devices are occasionally referred to as "fake bending" (example: explosives = fake firebending).
326*** The Earth Kingdom runs complicated metro transit and postal systems by using Earthbenders to "bend" the cargo across stone tracks, with the trains themselves made of stone as well. It also has advanced construction (with the largest and most elaborate cities in the world) and possibly agriculture (which could explain how Ba Sing Se is able to maintain vast tracts of farmland from within its city wall), eventually developing earthbending-powered tanks as well.
327*** The Air Nomads traveled with the help of gliders supported by airbending.
328*** The Water Tribes, among other things, have [[HealingHands largely overwritten]] the need for traditional medicine. The canal lock system used for the capital city of the Northern Water Tribe also runs on waterbending (which was also likely used to construct the city itself, given that its largest and most elaborate buildings seem to be made completely of ice). They also eventually create waterbending-propelled ''submarines''.
329*** The Fire Nation's innate ability to control, well, fire has allowed it to undergo an all-out industrial revolution, with plenty of [[SteamPunk steam powered]] machines, such as tanks and drills. Unlike the other nations, however, much of its more advanced technology can be fully operated by non-benders as well.
330** This is played with in SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra.'' Seventy years later, and the ''Avatar'' world has much more advanced technology, most of which can run without bending, such as automobiles, radios, and biplanes; even the Earth Kingdom's transit system from the original show has replaced its Earthbenders with conventional engines. It's even a plot point in Season 1, where the most technologically advanced faction are the [[AntiMagicalFaction anti-bending]] Equalists. Nevertheless, there's still plenty of room for bending-based technology; power plants in Republic City are staffed by Firebenders using lightning to help power the electrical grid, and battleship cannons are primarily used to increase the power of bending attacks.
331** The ultimate example of this for the entire franchise happens in Season 4 of ''Korra'', when Kuvira's Earth Empire unveils [[spoiler:a HumongousMecha powered by spirit vines, wielding a giant energy cannon that's also powered by spirit vines. Varrick already concluded that spirits and science do NOT mix]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler:it can roughly approximate a MotionCaptureMecha by having Kuvira metalbend trackballs to pilot it]].
332* A lot of ghost-related gear in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' comes off as magitek, both in terms of technology used by ghosts (such as Skulker's suit) and technology used by ghost-hunters, such as all the Fenton technology.
333* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'', especially the CrystalBall that functions like the internet.
334* Much of Egyxos technology in ''WesternAnimation/{{Egyxos}}'' appears to be combined with magic.
335* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
336** Coldstone, an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead cyborg gargoyle]] created using Xanatos' technology and brought to life by Demona's magic.
337** Demona's stone-by-night curse in "City of Stone" and plague in "Hunter's Moon" also used a combination of science and sorcery: The curse was broadcast throughout Manhattan using Xanatos' technology, while Xanatos' chemical disinfectant and Sevarius' carrier virus were integral scientific components to the plague. (The Fulfillment Spell and the Praying Gargoyle were the magical components.)
338* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' was full of this. Flying discs, [[SteamPunk steampunk]]y mecha-dragons, energy shields -- Practically every bit of technology was combined with magic. There were also technological devices using or enhancing magical artefacts, like a belt powered by rare magical water which punished the wearer with an electrical shock as soon as he tried to do evil.
339* ''WesternAnimation/JadeArmor'':
340** Black Tiger knows how to combine her gadgets with Shards increasing their power and giving them the magic of the Shards.
341** Will has created a drone that can integreate with the Crimson Lord and nearly perfectly replicate all the magical powers of his missing Beasticons.
342* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E12Alive Alive!]]", Lex realizes that he can use his clingy girlfriend [[HotWitch Tala]] as a power supply for his device to bring Brainiac back to life. [[spoiler:She screws him over in revenge by bringing back Darkseid instead.]]
343* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': One episode features Zandoodle, an “inventor wizard” who makes this for a living.
344* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' has various abilities that are powered by devices such as the "shrinkerscope" and "mesmerglobber", which occasionally go on the fritz and require a trip to a mechanic at one point.
345* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
346** Creator/LaurenFaust's HandWave for any appearance of technology [[SchizoTech more advanced]] than that of [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy medieval Europe]] (namely, ones that run on electricity) is that it's [[ClarkesLawForGirlsToys powered by]] [[AWizardDidIt unicorn magic]].
347** At the end of "May the Best Pet Win", an example of this is shown when Rainbow Dash's new pet tortoise Tank flies by wearing a visibly-enchanted propeller on his shell.
348** In "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", the eponymous cider-making machine is powered by the Flim Flam brothers' unicorn magic.
349** "The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well" features what looks remarkably like a [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/mlp/images/0/0c/Hoofer_Dam_S2E08.png hydro-electric dam]], suggesting it may be possible for the ponies to "generate" magic power in that way as well.
350** Subverted by the industrial-sized pet hair dryer in "Just for Sidekicks", which does not have any visible energy source, plus Sweetie Belle's magic probably isn't stable enough to control such a device.
351* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': The heroes have access to a high-tech HQ that contains among other things a HolographicTerminal and can turn into a rocketship, as well as high-tech individual vehicles, all of which would not be out of place in a sciencefiction series. Yet, it's all powered by a PowerCrystal, and tied to the PJ's own powers (in the season 4 premiere, the vehicles vanished when the PJ's lost their powers, and reappeared [[MidSeasonupgrade with upgrades]] when they regained their powers.
352* While ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is primarily science fiction, supernatural beings and forces also exist and Rick has no problems either applying his super science to deal with magical threats or combining magic with his tech, at one point even cobbling up a magical gun when in a dimension where his tech won't work.
353* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'''s version of the MutagenicGoo was created in a lab by a MadScientist, and it's clear that chemistry was involved in its creation. Its origins, however, are magical in nature, [[AWizardDidIt which explains its]]...''[[LegoGenetics odd]]'' [[{{Mutants}} properties]].
354* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
355** Aku's [[EliteMook Ultra-Robots]] were created with advanced technology, but powered by Aku's evil magic essence which he infused into them.
356** Scaramouch was also a robot who had magical abilities (at least he claimed it was magic, it was never really explained).
357* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
358** Parodied in a Future episode. "We can do anything now that scientists have invented magic."
359** Prof. Frink mastered the one and only science: Astrology.
360* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': The plot of "Super Sonic" involves an ancient computerized spellbook that actually [[SealedEvilInACan traps concentrated evil inside it]].
361* To add another to the ''Star Wars'' examples above in Film and Video Games, ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' introduces the Lasat, a species that uses Force-empowered technology along with ritual. Their NationalWeapon, the [[StaticStunGun bo-rifle]], can be reconfigured into a MagicStaff under the right circumstances and their shamans use more traditional staffs that can intersect with holomaps to show ThePromisedLand. [[spoiler:In the climax, the team's spaceship is enchanted and then Force-empowered to fly through an imploded star cluster, briefly becoming an example itself.]]
362* Essentially the gist of Gem technology in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', which is undoubtedly highly-advanced, but also mystical. ClarkesThirdLaw is not fully in effect [[http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Magic due to a variety of factors]].
363* The evil wizards in ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'' are just as likely to employ giant robots and war machines as magic spells.
364* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', the Iacon relics are the crowning achievements of the ancient Transformers. Ratchet describes them as fusions of magic and technology.
365* ''[[WesternAnimation/TrollhuntersRiseOfTheTitans Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans]]'' has his protagonist Jim Lake Jr donning "The Magiktech Armor" in the final battle, created from the combination of alien technology from Akiridion-5 and Merlin's magic, all while wielding Excalibur.
366* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' it's strongly implied that much of the tech shown in the series is magitek, from the hover bikes to the space ships. Zenith, Tecna's homeworld, is the epitome of this.
367* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Light]] seems to be fond of mixing magic, biology, and technologies to carry out their EvilPlan. Their ultimate goal for season one is using "techno-sorcery" to create [[spoiler:Starrotech, which uses magic to fuse bits of Starro's body with nanobots to create the ultimate mind-control weapon]].
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371* A Pakistani scientist had proposed using the power of the djinn to solve the [[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/world/nation-challenged-nuclear-fears-pakistani-atomic-expert-arrested-last-week-had.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all 1998 energy crisis.]]
372* NORAD's SantaClaus tracking. It is a real thing. You read that right. [[http://www.noradsanta.org/ And they even got a website!!]]
373* MIT's [=AI=] Lab once possessed a mainframe computer [[http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html that seems to have been a primitive form of Magitek]].
374* Quantum entanglement is the property of particles that are "entangled" to react predictably and instantly when one of them is measured or acted upon. Because of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the actual state of both particles are undetermined (not merely unknown) before measurement of their states; the particles are said to be entangled because measuring one state allows you to predict state of the other particle (usually through a conservation law, such as conservation of angular momentum)---and this effect appears to travel instantaneously, instantly determining the state of unmeasured particle (magically, and apparently in contradiction to what Special Relativity says). Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as there is no exchange of energy or information and therefore no actual interaction between the entangled particles (which is why entanglement cannot be used to create a [[SubspaceAnsible Subspace Ansible]]).
375* Quantum Mechanics as a whole can be thought of as being almost magical, due to its bizarre, common-sense-defying rules. Particles can be in two places or states at the same time, tunnel through barriers it shouldn't, have particle and wave natures simultaneously (even contradictory ones), and act instantly on each other over effectively infinite distances. Yet, as surreal as it sounds, it has proven to be true and contributed to the accelerated progress of modern physics in the 20th and 21st centuries, as it explained phenomena that the preceding science was unable to.
376* Some anthropologists have defined magic to be a form of pseudo technology, which depends on our perception of the laws of physics rather than on physics-breaking supernatural phenomena. Magic comes from the magician's understanding of magic and is equivalent to an engineer's magic/understanding of science, which allows the engineer to create fantastic results.
377* Some forms of technology can sound like magic.
378** Steel is carbonized iron, e.g. a molten iron sword smothered in blood. "This sword was bathed in the blood of [[VirginSacrifice a virgin sacrificed]] to the WarGod." Damascus Steel, in particular, has turned out to follow Clarke's Law surprisingly closely. We have now reproduced a superior version of Damascus Steel with the mystical 'carbon nanotube'.
379** Speaking of blood, the ancient Romans infused their cement mix with the blood of animal sacrifices to curry the gods' favor, unknowingly aerating it and thus producing stronger concrete than would be available for ''centuries'' after the fall of Rome. How much stronger? It's the only reason their ruins are still standing after all this time.
380** The Mongol shamans' practice of boiling drinking water to drive away "evil spirits."
381* Many engineering schools teach their students to treat their job as witchcraft. It's the job of a scientist to figure out how things work, but it’s the job of an engineer to ''make'' things work. Trying to figure out how the different components you are working with work is time consuming and doesn't help solve the task at hand, so engineers are taught to treat them as magic relics where only the inputs and outputs are relevant. And at the end of the day, an engineer's work should be mysterious to the lay person, otherwise there is no need to hire them over any other schmuck.
382* Both sides of the UsefulNotes/IronCurtain tried to produce weapons powered by, and/or producing, supernatural energy. Whether or not the scientists found anything interesting is something still researched today.
383* Alchemy was aiming at this. Much of the lab technology eventually used by real chemists (beakers, retorts, crucibles etc) was actually developed by alchemists first.
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