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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Any technology indistinguishable from magic is  insufficiently advanced
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In-Reply-To: <200107121402.QAA24786@boris.cd.chalmers.se>; from Laura Creighton on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:02:29PM +0200
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:09:42 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:02:29PM +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
> that is Greg Benford in _Foundations Fear_ I believe.  Or did he say that it
> was not original with him?
>
I can't quote him, but Robert Heinlein in "Time Enough for Love"
phrased it along the lines of: "Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic", which I'm sure is likely to give
rise to the parody quoted.

++L