[ale] Technology and Magic

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 17:01, Jim Philips wrote:
> And remember:
> 
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
> Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future"

	Perhaps you've heard it's corollary:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged
demo.

A friend of mine at a COMDEX like trade show once saw a *video* of
running software.  His guess was that they couldn't get the rigged demo
stabilized. ;-)

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny