[Bon mots]

Advanced technology will appear to us as magic and those wielding it as gods.

So true. Like when we fly a helicopter or airplane over the Amazon or some other such primitive area.

Isn't this what we do to them?

Imagine, if we were to take a simple thing like an iPhone and go back just a brief 150 years and hand it to the best scientist of the day, they would have no hope of understanding it.

In fact, they couldn't even charge it as the first city would not be electrified for another 10 years.

Aliens could be not just 150 years in advance of us, but 150,000 or more.

Their science would appear to be magic to us.

[BDParrish]

Interesting point for those who are interested in history. I do though think that they would have recognized it as a wireless telegraph. In fact that is exactly how I see texting. Photography they would have recognized too. Perhaps telephony would have surprised them or perhaps having all of these machines combined into one device. As far as the technology goes, I never found a single high school student who had the slightest inkling how any of this works, and until I mentioned it, never saw one who even cared to know. I used to take them outside to show them the cell towers, which they had never even seen though they passed by them every day.

[Vermont Lt]

A couple of months ago I went to the dentist and found I needed a cap.

The in the mouth prep was the Same. But before he started he took a bunch of scans of the tooth.

When the prep was done, he left the room and came back with a 3D printed and milled copy of my two. Two small hits with a grinder, and it was fit in perfectly.

I work in the tech field, but even I was impressed by this. I felt like I was in the 25th century.

[Lurker]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Heinlein

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