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I disagree with Clarke\'s Third Law, and find citing it as an excuse to not explain how something work no more \
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I disagree with Clarke\\\'s Third Law, and find citing it as an excuse to not explain how something work no more \\\"Hard\\\" then just saying \\\"Oh it\\\'s Magic no explanation needed\\\".
Thing with the Third Law is it doesn\\\'t just apply to how Future Technology in a Thousand or a Million years might look to us, it\\\'s also linked to a belief that our Technology would look like Magic to a Medieval, Ancient of or Primitive people. To this is absurd, I agree you can make Technology look like magic when your deliberately trying to be deceptive (That\\\'s exactly what stage magic is), but the idea then if I time-traveled back to Ancient Rome and fired a Gun they\\\'d assume that was Magic is silly to me, I think even primitive people can see quite quickly that it\\\'s clearly a piece of technology, a very advanced Bow and Arrow. In fact one StarTrekTheNextGeneration episode actually insinuated a Bow and Arrow would seem a god-like power to someone who hadn\\\'t seen one before, that the height of absurdity to me.
What I will say, as someone who believes the Very Ancient World was more technologically advanced then we think, that I od believe Technology could become Magik in a myth as it retold over and over again generations after the technology was lost and forgotten, especially if much of that was by pure oral Tradition.
Thing with the Third Law is it doesn\\\'t just apply to how Future Technology in a Thousand or a Million years might look to us, it\\\'s also linked to a belief that our Technology would look like Magic to a Medieval, Ancient of or Primitive people. To this is absurd, I agree you can make Technology look like magic when your deliberately trying to be deceptive (That\\\'s exactly what stage magic is), but the idea then if I time-traveled back to Ancient Rome and fired a Gun they\\\'d assume that was Magic is silly to me, I think even primitive people can see quite quickly that it\\\'s clearly a piece of technology, a very advanced Bow and Arrow. In fact one StarTrekTheNextGeneration episode actually insinuated a Bow and Arrow would seem a god-like power to someone who hadn\\\'t seen one before, that the height of absurdity to me.
What I will say, as someone who believes the Very Ancient World was more technologically advanced then we think, that I od believe Technology could become Magik in a myth as it retold over and over again generations after the technology was lost and forgotten, especially if much of that was by pure oral Tradition.
