Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three “laws” of prediction:
1: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Law 3 illustrated here:
Via 9gag.
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