{"id":2133,"date":"2010-08-14T21:07:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluehaired.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2016-09-25T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T07:48:42","slug":"any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/2010\/08\/any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always been fascinated with magic, the making possible of that which our mind tells us that is “clearly” impossible; those things that we are too puzzled (or narrow minded) to understand. And as I think back to some of the tech I’ve seen so far in my lifetime and the way I perceived it the first time I came in contact with it, I can’t help but agree with Arthur C. Clarke<\/a> when he said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When you think about it, it wasn’t that long ago that we were still baffled by the novelty of technologies like a GPS, a smoothly working multitouch surface or the controls of a Nintendo Wii, and how they had this almost magical quality to them the first time we experienced them, yet thanks to Moore’s law<\/a> and the ever thriving minds of designers and engineers out there I think that things are about to get REALLY interesting and I can’t wait to see the true magic<\/em> that is coming our way.<\/p>\n

Here are just a couple of examples of things I’ve come across lately that I’m very much looking forward to, both as a designer and as a consumer.<\/p>\n