Thursday, January 28, 2010

RE: [Avid-L2] OT: iPad

Nope. I was quoting the first line from Apples video.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Wilson Chao
Sent: 28 January 2010 15:53
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: iPad

That's not from "Gravity's Rainbow" (although "magic" occurs 32 times and
"magical" 3 times there.)


Perhaps Tony's thinking of:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of the Future" (1973 revised edition)

http://tinyurl.com/yd92llu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:16 AM, John Beck <jb30343@windstream.net> wrote:
> Quote from "Gravity's Rainbow"?? --J.B.
>
> ---- Tony Quinsee-Jover <tony@hdheaven.co.uk> wrote:
> > "The video at this link feels like an Onion parody"
> >
> > "When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works it
> > kinda becomes magical..."


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