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The Clarke Axiom, but for geeks and flirting

The Clarke Axiom — named after the guy who coined it, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke — is well-known to geeks:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

You may remember seeing the Clarke Axiom mentioned on this blog before. I quoted Maciej Ceglowski, who remixed it to become:

Any sufficiently advanced society is indistinguishable from Canada.

(I can already hear the whining coming from the bloggers at the Western Standard. All I can say to those folks is: if you take your meds, the voices will stop.)

I don’t know how I ended up looking at a page in Everything2 (imagine a less academic Wikipedia written by LiveJournalers), but someone has come up with a geek lament treatment of the Clarke Axiom:

Any sufficiently nice person is indistinguishable from someone who likes you.


Bonus bragging point: This blog is currently the number one Google result for the phrase “Clarke Axiom”.

Joey deVilla

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