The Magic of Technology

Technology is rooted in the real world. It provides electronic solutions to human problems using the circuits and microcomputer chips that simulate human action. Where technology appears to make the leap to magic is where the underlying scientific basis that it operates on is no longer visible to the human eye. This is the distinction between magic and technology; technology has known and usually visible scientific underpinnings, while magicÆs underpinnings are a mystery. Magic appears to occur without any known cause and to transcend what is realistically possible. Real magic is supernatural; it is the doing of things that are impossible to do. Magicians appear to be doing real magic, but they are merely fooling the eye. Everything magicians do is actually possible, and in most cases relatively simple and mundane. It is the concealing of the underlying mystery of how the magic trick is done that makes it appear to be supernatural.

In this sense, advanced technology can easily and logically be compared

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