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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
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Advances in technology will not permit the maintenance of the status quo, as far as privacy is concerned.
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Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.
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Niels Bohr:
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Any sufficiently retarded magic is indistinguishable from technology.
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Noam Chomsky:
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Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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#Possibilities
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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Clarke's Third Law doesn't work in reverse. Given that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," it does not follow that "any magical claim that anybody may make at any time is indistinguishable from a technological advance that well come some time in the future." ... There have admittedly been occasions when authoritative, pontificating skeptics have come away with egg on their faces, even within their own lifetimes. But there have been a far greater number of occasions when magical claims have never been vindicated. An apparent magical claim might eventually turn out to be true. In any age there are so many magical claims that are, or could be, made. They can't all be true; many are mutually contradictory; and we have no reason to suppose that, simply by the act of sitting down and dreaming up a magical claim, we shall make it come true in some future technology. Some things that would surprise us today will come true in the future. But lots and lots of things that would surprise us today will not come true ever.
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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