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Oct. 14th, 2009 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogAs frustrating and stressful as my job sometimes gets, I think it's important to step back once in a while and realize I'm doing magic. This occurred to me while I was on my last phone call.
I was sitting here in my house in Wisconsin and talking on the phone with someone in Kansas. We're some thousand miles away from each other, and she and I could have a conversation like we were sitting in the same room.
On top of that, I opened up a little window on my computer with her computer in it. I could control the mouse and keyboard on her computer that is so far away from me that, for the vast majority of our species' existence, most of our ancestors couldn't imagine travelling that far in our lives. And I can just sit here in my house and connect with this person this way, not to mention fix a stupid IE plugin problem.
We really are, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, a sufficiently advanced technology*. We can work magic, you and I.
*"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic."
-Arthur C Clarke
I was sitting here in my house in Wisconsin and talking on the phone with someone in Kansas. We're some thousand miles away from each other, and she and I could have a conversation like we were sitting in the same room.
On top of that, I opened up a little window on my computer with her computer in it. I could control the mouse and keyboard on her computer that is so far away from me that, for the vast majority of our species' existence, most of our ancestors couldn't imagine travelling that far in our lives. And I can just sit here in my house and connect with this person this way, not to mention fix a stupid IE plugin problem.
We really are, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, a sufficiently advanced technology*. We can work magic, you and I.
*"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic."
-Arthur C Clarke
