Magic: Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable From Magic

Arthur Clarke's Three Laws are "laws" of future predictions:

1) 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.

2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Note that Law 3, Magic, is very similar to Singularity.

In this talk we will explore Clarke's third law and it's application in 2015 and also consider the InfoSec ramifications and explore some interesting and funny results. Questions covered include: What is common today but could have gotten you burned as a witch long ago? What has disappeared from our life without our noticing it? (a reverse Singularity). What inventions have made the greatest changes in normal life in the US?

Speaker: Greg Edwards