New Technology and Mystery

 

One of your class readings concerned Oliver Lodge, a renowned pioneer in radio physics who thought we would be able, with this new magic, to communicate with the dead.

Here’s another example of this that I found today – when Thomas Edison tried to measure spirits with technology.

By the way, this wasn’t limited to radio – some people thought that photography would be a good way to capture pixies.

Things like this make me wonder about the more extreme claims of The Singularity.

Arthur C. Clarke said that a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So is our response to it.