mommykink@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWhat popular quote are you tired of hearing?message-squaremessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular quote are you tired of hearing?mommykink@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square68fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months ago“Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” An individual, uneducated observer might not be able to tell them apart, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a distinction. One of the avengers movies dropped that line, and I feel like it’s spread like wild fire since then, and it’s just objectively not correct.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoI understand much of the technology we use today isn’t magic, but it may as well be with how much I understand about how it works. I don’t think you quite grasp what Arthur C Clarke was going for with this one.
minus-squareSterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoI get what he was going for, I just think it was poorly executed.
“Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
An individual, uneducated observer might not be able to tell them apart, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a distinction.
One of the avengers movies dropped that line, and I feel like it’s spread like wild fire since then, and it’s just objectively not correct.
I understand much of the technology we use today isn’t magic, but it may as well be with how much I understand about how it works.
I don’t think you quite grasp what Arthur C Clarke was going for with this one.
I get what he was going for, I just think it was poorly executed.