What popular quote are you tired of hearing?
What popular quote are you tired of hearing?
Bonus points if it's usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
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"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.