High-Tech Magic

HIGH-TECH MAGIC (in the sense of Clarke's third law) is illustrated at the HMML Digitial Collections and Imaging blog with a 1960s image of a cuneiform tablet.  (HT Adam McCollum on Facebook.)

For those interested, Clarke's three laws, all of them relevant to various discussions on PaleoJudaica, are:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.