Clarke's Third Law

[Techno-Druid]

Clarke's Third Law states:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

But how accurate is it? If you were transported 2,000 years into the future and you met the humans of that time period, would their habits and technology be incomprehensible to the point of it being comparable to magic or would someone simply be able to recognize that it was and only was advanced technology?

[Powerogue]

It's mainly applying to looking back to when people were more superstitious. If you took a smartphone even a few hundred years back you'd be burned at the stake for witchcraft, no doubt about it.

[Deleted]

A Person today traveling 2000 days into the future would be perfectly able to understand that the tech they see is just that, technology. They may not know how it works, just that it is technology and not magic.
Take a person from 2000 years ago to today, then pretty much everything would be magic, simply because they have no frame of reference what technology is capable of.

now transporting them 2 million years into the future, it may be seen as magical.

[Dezerte]

Some will call it magic, just like they do today. Other's won't.

[Independent voter]

Back around 1900, the found the last stone aged human in America. They took him to San Francisco and showed him a car, he wasn't impressed, they showed him a train and a airplane, that didn't impress him either, he would rather walk so that he could take in the sites. The only thing that did impress him was indoor plumbing, he could poop inside the house on a cold day. His name was Ishi I think.

[P for Pancetta]

To me magic is complexity made simple. Magic is something an individual can not comprehend and/or has no desire to understand, he draws power from this false knowledge in order to make oneself seem more significant.