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Magic Roadshow #165

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 MAGIC ROADSHOW #165  April, 2015 Welcome.. It’s April, it’s spring, it’s time for another Magic Roadshow. Believe me, that’s easier said than done. I, and a group of guys who love magic, have made this issue possible. Without their contributions this issue would be a fraction of itself. I hope you like it… I guess it’s safe to say we’ve seen the worst of a strange and eventful winter. For a while I had a captive audience up north. I…

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Let’s look to magicians to better understand technological deception..

In order to best understand the new technologies in our lives, it may be more useful to look to stage magicians than to source code. The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke wrote that, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But I’m not saying that the performances of David Copperfield and the products of Steve Jobs are one and the same. What’s important about the example of stage magic is that it will help us think about which…

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