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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 ...
Ethics change with technology. There ain't no justice. (often abbreviated to TANJ) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures. It falls apart at a touch. There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced. The ways of being human are bounded but infinite. The world's dullest subjects, in order:
It can be defined as either the most complex or the newest technology on the market. [3] The opposite of high tech is low technology, referring to simple, often traditional or mechanical technology; for example, a slide rule is a low-tech calculating device. [4] [5] [6] When high tech becomes old, it becomes low tech, for example vacuum tube ...
L.C. Rees described the nature of fifth generation warfare as difficult to define in itself, alluding to the third law of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke – "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." [10]
Once any sufficiently advanced civilization becomes able to master its environment, and most of its physical needs are met through technology, various "social and entertainment technologies", including virtual reality, are postulated to become the primary drivers and motivations of that civilization. [129]
All the advanced capability will alter the domain of warfare as well, leading to laser and particle beam weapons, and planes without human pilots. [31] Medicine will entail computer diagnosticians, coordinated data banks of patient histories, realistic simulations for drug designers, and robotically assisted surgery.
Advanced technology refers, in general, to high technology. Advanced technology may also refer to: Advanced steam technology; Advanced Technology & Education Park;
Star lifting is any of several hypothetical processes by which a sufficiently advanced civilization (specifically, one of Kardashev-II or higher) could remove a substantial portion of a star's matter which can then be re-purposed, while possibly optimizing the star's energy output and lifespan at the same time.