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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Distributed System Annex DSA
Date: 1996/09/21
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Date: 1996-09-21T00:00:00+00:00
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"Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
>Any sufficiently advanced technogoy is indistinguishable from magic.
>Who said that?  ;-)"


I just read a Startrek novel where they got around the prime directive
and could use their modern technology because the society involved (based
on 14th century Germany) believed in magic and could accept the technology
as magic without causing culture clash :-)