Indistinguishable

An author once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The implication being, that if it is beyond our understanding, it seems like magic. That is where he was wrong.

Magic is all around us if only we are willing to recognize it. We run an electric current through a wire to conjour light. We play in virtual reality created not by engineers but technomancers, eat crops engineered not by scientists but biomancers, take medicine not from pharmacists but alchemists. That is magic. Take a good, hard look and try to tell yourself it isn't.

You see, magic is not what is beyond our understanding but rather, the miracles that we choose not to see because they are so commonplace. When you get right down to it, technology and magic are not indistinguishable but inseparable.