Science Fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke famously said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". When thinking of this quote, many people think of sci-fi scenarios where advanced alien civilizations wow us with their powers of teleportation or mind reading. However, Clarke's observation can easily be applied to today's human technology.
One way to convince yourself this is true is to view today's everyday technology from the perspective of an 18th century American. If, on your time-hopping visit to 1700's, you used your smartphone to video the citizens and showed it to them, they would recoil in shock. If you then told them you could use the same device to talk to people all across the world, they'd lock you up in the asylum.
However, there's another level to this. All over the world, teams of scientists are working with tomorrow's technologies today. If you knew what they have already accomplished, you yourself would be stunned.
This is the introduction to a series of occasional posts, whose goal is to show you the magic that science is creating daily.
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