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  2. Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia

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    Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic. [12] Sterling's corollary to Clarke's law) This idea also underlies the setting of the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, in which human stalkers try to navigate the location of an alien "visitation", trying to make sense of technically advanced items ...

  3. Niven's laws - Wikipedia

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    While discussing the ship itself, the Doctor asks his companion if she knows Clarke's Law, which she then recites: "Any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic." The Doctor replies that the reverse is true and Ace voices this, working through the inverse, "any advanced form of magic is indistinguishable from technology."

  4. Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia

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    He advanced this idea in a paper privately circulated among the core technical members of the British Interplanetary Society in 1945. The concept was published in Wireless World in October of that year. [8] Clarke also wrote a number of nonfiction books describing the technical details and societal implications of rocketry and space flight.

  5. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Collingridge's dilemma: Technology can only be regulated well if its impacts are known, but once a technology is known it is often too entrenched to be regulated. Named after David Collingridge.

  6. Elder Race (novella) - Wikipedia

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    Nield concludes by stating that Tchaikovsky uses these juxtapositions to explore ideas including Arthur C. Clarke's well-known adage that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Furthermore, Tchaikovsky uses the language and cultural barriers to draw distinctions between science fiction and fantasy genre tropes. [1]

  7. As AI hype soars, VCs are tussling to figure out what’s real ...

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    Arthur C. Clarke’s best-remembered law states: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Which, of course, poses a challenge to tech investors.

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    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic [ edit ] The third of Clarke's three laws (or the variant "Magic is just science that we don't understand yet") is often cited in works of fiction.

  9. Talk:Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia

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    Rule 3 - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. One could also make the suggestion that .. Any technology which is distinguishable from magic, is therefore not sufficiently advanced 146.200.7.104 ( talk ) 20:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC) [ reply ]