n 1390 ad, to the ‘technological non-initiates’, a web search would have been seen as a ‘scrying act’ and video streaming event a ‘clairvoyant experience’.
(AC – 13) Arthur C. Clark: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” …quote of his reflects on the early beginnings of technology. In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.