Post #1705630

2026-04-26 21:30 UTC

It annoys me that we are culturally prone to talking about impressive technology we (personally) don't understand as "magic" I think this does a disservice to those who may be hear us (especially children) and thus think, "I could never do something like that!" It's a lot of hard work and cooperation that got us the things that exist today. And you could be someone who makes the next amazing thing exist

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@zack@mamot.fr 2026-04-27 00:10

@recursive@hachyderm.io I don't know why but your framing immediately made me think of religion... an older version of the same mechanism of .. mystification. https://mamot.fr/@zack/116473750026701277 Before tech (A.I !) existed to call "magic", we had gods to explain nature.. Anyway, thanks for the spark !

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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-27 01:35

@recursive@hachyderm.io The problem I see is not that technology is magic, but that some technology is expensive to build. You can't just slap together a 20nm CPU factory in your garage, even if you know exactly how to do it. And that's sad. I look forward to the invention of Star Trek replicators. This will unshackle an awful lot of would-be inventors.

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@alicela1n@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-27 01:58

@recursive@hachyderm.io the more I learn about computers the more I realize they're actually very simple circuits that have been condensed and multiplied with each generation to perform more functions, but because there's billions of transistors in a smartphone it seems like magic, I remember wondering how people figured out how to make machines this complex

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