“Wizardry and Wonder: Modern-Day Technology and the Inconvenient Limits of Human Knowledge!”

Science fiction author/screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke once wrote in his work Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (1962) that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This is a very incisive observation as it accounts not just for technology but the entire relativity of the human condition.

Consider, for instance, some of our most…