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Episode 42: It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law

Our Opinions Are Correct

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Arthur c. Clark's third law of prophecy is not actually something that he wrote down in a list. It actually comes from an essay that he wrote. The best summation of it comes from the recent season of doctor ho and here is the doctor telling us the law. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Just about to posen el. We're going to talk about why that law has been so influential in science fiction, but also what we can salvage from it,. And how am how charley and i have kind of a disagreement over what it means and why it's important.

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