Clarke's Law (repost)

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TML message #5663From bundle 473

Please forgive my Friday night post... that's what I get for feeding
my mailer raw WordPerfect files.  Here's what I meant to say:

Sorry I've forgotten who mentioned it in the last TML, but...

Someone mentioned that Arthur C. Clarke's statement, "A sufficiently
advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic" to be
"Clarke's Law".  My copy of his 1964 book _Profiles of the Future_
(p.14) states Clarke's Law as

     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.

Sorry but I just had to parade this knowledge.

- - Chuck
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