Eliezer, isn’t reading a good fantasy story like being transported into another world?
Jed Harris: I agree… Our world seems to have the rule: “you are not significant”. You can’t design and build an airplane in your backyard, no one can. Even if you’ve got enough money, you haven’t got enough time for that. In magical worlds (including Star Trek, Asimov, etc) that is what seems to be normal. (And I’ve never read about a committee which coordinates the work of hundreds of sorcerers, who create new spells 8 hours a day...)
rfriel: Yes, we could build the technology to do the things magic can do, but even with our current technology we also can do things which magic can’t. And these limitations are which make magic so “nice”, not only the features.
Martin: to be the best, you only have to make your world small. (I was one of the best in math in our secondary school, and it didn’t bother me that I wasn’t the best in the whole country, or that I was quite bad in history...) But it would have been soo good to be the one who makes the best operating systems in the whole school...
I refuse to exept your premise that it is impossible to have enough time and/or money to persue ones dreams; indeed, I challenge it. I personaly have a low income job, and also a small, old and used sailboat, that I’m trying to renovate and make seaworty again, with the hope of one day sailing far and explore the world. I know this is possible, for my parents did it, and brought me and my brother along 10 years ago, when I was 12.
Eliezer, isn’t reading a good fantasy story like being transported into another world?
Jed Harris: I agree… Our world seems to have the rule: “you are not significant”. You can’t design and build an airplane in your backyard, no one can. Even if you’ve got enough money, you haven’t got enough time for that. In magical worlds (including Star Trek, Asimov, etc) that is what seems to be normal. (And I’ve never read about a committee which coordinates the work of hundreds of sorcerers, who create new spells 8 hours a day...)
rfriel: Yes, we could build the technology to do the things magic can do, but even with our current technology we also can do things which magic can’t. And these limitations are which make magic so “nice”, not only the features.
Martin: to be the best, you only have to make your world small. (I was one of the best in math in our secondary school, and it didn’t bother me that I wasn’t the best in the whole country, or that I was quite bad in history...) But it would have been soo good to be the one who makes the best operating systems in the whole school...
But thats exactly how it did happen! If magic was possible in 1903, then surely it is possible now.
I refuse to exept your premise that it is impossible to have enough time and/or money to persue ones dreams; indeed, I challenge it. I personaly have a low income job, and also a small, old and used sailboat, that I’m trying to renovate and make seaworty again, with the hope of one day sailing far and explore the world. I know this is possible, for my parents did it, and brought me and my brother along 10 years ago, when I was 12.