
Episode 42: It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law
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The Third Law of Magic
i feel like people often use clark's third law as a stick to a sort of beat magic withum. Either people are just being unsophisticated in their understanding of a scientific phenomenon, or we don't possess the technology yet that will explain what this thing isye i was watching am some eclipse of arthur c. Clark talking about futurism from that same early sixties b b c special where he talks about the future f a sort of mobile phone technology. And it immediately clicked for me that what he was really talking about was in the lingo of the 19 sixties, first world versus third world rit cultures. Because li the ability to make glass, which
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