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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
Really? I got this one from Dean Kamen the guy who made the segway scooter. They called him the Wizard of IT back when they didn't know what IT was.
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March 9th, 2005, 12:28 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
That's the first time I've heard the Dean Kamen qoute, but I've heard the other one about a dozen times, and either of them were writing in the 30's.
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March 9th, 2005, 12:33 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
It was a quote in an article I read several years ago. The quote caught my eye, so I saved it. It seemed fitting with my work on the Adamant Pics.
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March 9th, 2005, 12:34 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
Quote:
narf poit chez BOOM said:
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.
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Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
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March 9th, 2005, 12:43 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
I found the article.
Dean Kamen
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March 9th, 2005, 04:16 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
Well the intial ploom was about 35k high but disipated rapidly.  It was an Ash fart.  It did however catch everyone off gaurd so that is the scary thing.
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March 9th, 2005, 04:34 AM
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Man i want to see a eruption would be pretty,exept the dust but its ok  . Enojoy the fireworks without all of us there |
March 9th, 2005, 12:54 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
Quote:
Suicide Junkie said:
Quote:
narf poit chez BOOM said:
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.
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Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
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Or the Florence Ambrose amendum: Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it.
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm
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March 9th, 2005, 01:02 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
I seem to remember reading somewhere a line that sort of sounded like this:
Magic is simply something that the uninitiate does not understand.
Any ideas as to the source of that line?
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