{"id":127,"date":"2005-04-01T03:59:41","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2005-04-18T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T02:15:46","slug":"sufficiently-advanced-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/01\/sufficiently-advanced-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Some sufficiently advanced technology."},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how much I love quotations. So, here’s one that kicked off my first web site in 1994:<\/p>\n

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<\/em>
\n–Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”<\/em>, 1961 (Clarke’s third law)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With that in mind, take a look at this:
\nhttp:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000340038537\/<\/a><\/p>\n

That helps put Mr. Clarke’s quote front and center, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n

It’s good to be mindful of the difference between effect<\/em> and method<\/em>. I covered this at length in December last year in a post called, “Anti-Semantics<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

Coincidentally, today Jarrod Henry<\/a> posted something about this very subject in his blog, Magic, Mentalism, Mystery<\/a><\/em>. If you have a moment, pop over there for a look. I think you’ll enjoy reading it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how much I love quotations. So, here’s one that kicked off my first web site in 1994: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. –Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”, 1961 (Clarke’s third law) With that in mind, take a look at this: http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000340038537\/ That helps put Mr. Clarke’s quote front […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}