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This post could do with more specific references, and fewer generalizations and hand waving. Hephaestus was the god of the forge, smithing, and techne - yet he
by GuiA 7y ago
This post could do with more specific references, and fewer generalizations and hand waving.
Hephaestus was the god of the forge, smithing, and techne - yet he used magic to make many of his elaborate contraptions. Steampunk is a popular subgenre of sci-fi that blends the relationship between technology and magic. Tolkien opposes the technology of Isengard to the inherent magic of nature, but so does Miyazaki.
- EmilioMartinez 7y ago>This post could do with more specific references This. Just to get the ball rolling, Ghost in the Shell deals with consciousness arising from cybernetics, in Akira technology and human potentials interact heavily, and Neon Genesis Evangelion portrays humanity's efforts to gain the heavens through science.