[rescue] Re: The Cave
Phil Stracchino
alaric at caerllewys.net
Sat Apr 24 13:06:03 CDT 2004
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Tim H. wrote:
> Nadine Miller <vraptor at promessage.com> wrote:
> > I prefer the term "muggles", since what we do is a kind
> > of magic to the uninformed.
>
> This is funny, I had the exact same thought about muggles, even to the
> point of paraphrasing the thought that in any society, a technology
> sufficiently more advanced is indistinguishable from magic. Off the top
> of my had I can't attribute that paraphrase, but I am thinking it was a
> scifi author.
Clarke's Law.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
However, wizards probably don't have to worry about being offshored.
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