techwitch

techwitch, 9 months ago to random

I find it hard to express just how little I want to know about or interact with money. Every interaction with banking and finance people in my life is like talking to an alien creature whose people are obsessed with something I literally can't perceive.

techwitch, 9 months ago to technology

We all know Arthur C. Clarke's adage, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

What "advanced" is getting at, when stripped of colonialist associations, is:
1️⃣ How reliably does the tech work?
2️⃣ How well does the average person understand the tech they use?

More reliable technology seems more magical, as does tech of which we are more ignorant.

Today, much tech works much of the time, but few understand it. This is dangerous: it puts the average person in the position of an unmagical person in a magical world, vulnerable to harmful contracts with powerful beings.

#technology #musing #magic