"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C Clarke[1] This article has been posted at least once onto HN, and I liked rea

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C Clarke[1] This article has been posted at least once onto HN, and I liked reading it then, too. One of the first major insights I remember from my CS curriculum was the concept of abstraction -- in CS it's applied to code-as-data, the OSI model, etc, but it exists everywhere, including all engineering, large bureaucracies, etc. Thank you Prof Harvey! 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkes_three_laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkes_three_laws