I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of “well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine”.

I mean there’s gotta be another way. Examples?

  • @Forester
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    1118 days ago

    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable for magic

    • @__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      918 days ago

      I read a cool short story a few years ago that really embraced that quote. It started out as a fantasy story with wizards doing magic. It then turns out that magic is actually old nano machines or something, but society has forgotten all about the science behind them.