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“If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit…

Renato J. Mascardo · · 1 min read
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“If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. So engineering is, for all intents and purposes, magic, and who wouldn’t want to be a magician?”

—Elon Musk

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