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In reply to the discussion: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Godhood.. [View all]edhopper
(33,625 posts)8. I think Clarke's law is no longer valid
due in part to writers like him and Asimov. They have imagined technology and races well beyond our current understandings, yet we have no problem identifying them as just advanced science.
So I don't see us thinking anything is magic or divine and not advanced technology.
Look a a movie like Interstellar, we have no trouble imagining fifth dimensional beings that can manipulate time. Living beings, not gods.
True, using fakery, they could convince a lot of people. But Clarke's law isn't about tricking us, it's about just seeing sufficiently advanced technology. Hell, people today with nothing more than ear pieces and radios convince people in godlike powers.
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Fumesucker
Feb 2015
OP
I wrongly attributed TLQ to Clarke in the OP and then edited when it was pointed out to me..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#22
In Childhood's End some idiot tried to fire a nuke at the alien guardians, and promptly disappeared.
leveymg
Feb 2015
#7
I think this feeds into an evolutionary defense mechanism; our predisposition to faith.
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2015
#9
He wrote quite a bit of stuff that's not in that subgenre, I don't read fantasy either any more
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#25