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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 ...
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."
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.
In a deleted scene (included on the DVD release) the Doctor refers to one of Clarke's three laws — telling Ace that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic — to explain the various forms of magical attack used against them by the sorceress Morgaine, and also that Arthur's trans-dimensional spaceship was grown, not ...
This episode illustrates Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." [2] Production
Behold, below we've gathered 38 of the best Dumbledore quotes about life, love, friendship, Muggles, and, of course, magic. Related: 'Harry Potter' Actor Michael Gambon Dead at 82. Dumbledore ...
The book ends with a quote from Arthur C. Clarke: "Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magyk," hinting that the series is set in the far future. [18] This also hinted at by a dialogue between Lucy Gringe and Wolf Boy in Syren about the Red Tube. Wolf Boy says he has heard stories that people used to travel to the Moon ...
Short Moon Quotes "Be the moon and inspire people, even when you’re far from full." —K. Tolnoe "Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power." —Ursula K. Le Guin