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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."
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 ...
2 Sufficiently Advanced Magic: Andrew Rowe 7.60 The Crimson Queen: Alec Hutson 4 Devil's Night Dawning: Damien Black 6.70 5 Jack Bloodfist: Fixer: James Jakins 6.55 6 The Way Into Chaos: Harry Connolly 6.45 7 The War of Undoing: Alex Perry 6.30 8 Chaos Trims My Beard: Brett Herman 6.00 9 Tiger Lily: K. Bird Lincoln 5.45 10 Pilgrimage to Skara ...
The natives, a fur covered people, believe in magic and the book shows how sufficiently advanced technology would be perceived by a primitive society. Purple lands in an egg-shaped vehicle. He casually disrupts the lives of Lant's people, and thoughtlessly demeans Shoogar, the village magician.
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]
2 Production. 3 Release. 4 Reception. ... "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." [2] Production
Catweazle mistakes all modern technology for powerful magic (an example of Arthur C. Clarke's third law that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"), particularly "elec-trickery" (electricity) and the "telling bone" (telephone). Often he tried spells that failed and he would sigh, "Nothing works".
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. Conquest's three laws of politics: