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Old 01-08-2017, 04:21 PM
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Al Z -

Clark actually wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," which I paraphrased because your work seems to fit the description so well. To someone like me, your work - although it may be the result of talent, patience, knowledge, and skill - is truly magic.

Clark wrote that phrase as his "Third Law" in a footnote to an essay, "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination," in Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, New York: Harper & Row, 1962, revised 1973 and published as a Popular Library paperback. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms.../_CZYqBBSGOQJ]

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