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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 ...
In 1986, Clarke provided a grant to fund the prize money (initially £1,000) for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. In 2001 the prize was increased to £2001, and its value now matches the year (e.g., £2005 in 2005).
Clarke's three laws – Axioms proposed by British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke; First contact (anthropology) – The first meeting of two cultures previously unaware of one another; Futures studies – Study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures; List of eponymous laws – Adages and sayings named after a person
Shermer's last law: "Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God". [15] This is a corollary to Clarke's third law. Shirky principle: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
3 Asimov's Corollary to Clarke's First Law. 1 comment ... 5 Pared list items. 2 comments. 6 sufficiently advanced magic? 3 comments. 7 Page move. 1 comment. 8 ...
Grey's law (a humorous variant of Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd law): Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. [12] Douglas W. Hubbard quoted Hanlon's razor and added "a clumsier but more accurate corollary":
"Superiority" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race during an interstellar war. It shows the side which is more technologically advanced being defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new.
When Walter shows Astrid how the moth changes back to the butterfly when they enter the town, he says "a friend once said 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'" This was originally said by Arthur C. Clarke, originally appearing in Clarke's 1973 revision of "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination".