>Imagine shipping an iPhone back to the 18th century. It wouldn't seem like an advance in technology over the kinds of devices that existed then. It would seem

>Imagine shipping an iPhone back to the 18th century. It wouldn't seem like an advance in technology over the kinds of devices that existed then. It would seem like magic. Clarke's quote isn't "seems like magic" though. It's "indistinguishable from magic." When the Iphone runs out of batteries it's not going to seem so magical, is it?