Re: (TFT) unfinished Bendwyn (2nd try)

[PvK <pvk@oz.net>]

--- mtapley@swri.edu wrote:

"	Regarding "magic", "industrial magic", technology, etc.: I 
think if magic is sufficiently advanced that it *always works*, or at 
least when it doesn't work there is a known cause for that, then it 
has become technology (and the converse of Clarke's law applies). I'm 
typing this on a machine which uses transistors to switch voltages 
something over 64,000,000,000 times each second - and *all* of them 
work. That's technology. In ITL, even a DX-18 wizard will miss his 
spell 5% of the time (when he rolls a 16, 17, or 18). That's magic. 
If a clever wizard figures out how to hit a spell 64,000,000,000 
times in a row - it will have become technology."

Cool, so that implies that my car stopped being technology and
started being magic a few years ago, when it started working less
than 95% of the time for reasons no mechanic has been able to 
figure out! 
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