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Isn't this just basically like saying engineers in the middle ages were wizards? I certainly couldn't craft a trebuchet to save my life, yet there are 'people who are designing a machine that can transport rocks from one place to another'; it's not much different than a wizard casting a teleportation spell!
At what point does wishful thinking just become silliness? I couldn't tell you how a thermostat works, but it doesn't mean it's a technomagick circuit that uses sigils and harnesses the power of mini-lightning to magically reduce or increase a room's temperature.
If this is the criteria, we've been at this stage of technology being indistinguishable from magic ever since man figured out how to make fire. It's not like they understood combustion. Heck, man discovering fire would've been the true age of technology being indistinguishable from magic as no one on the planet could give a scientific answer for why it works; today however you can talk to an AI engineer who knows exactly why AI works the way it does.
We have magic stones inscribed with precise runes powered by captured lightning displaying this information across the world.
I can agree with you and still be in awe. It makes my user experience more awesome.
It gets more interesting when you avoid obfuscatory words like "magic", "rune", and "lightning" (in this context)
rune and lighting are fanciful but accurate. It is a marking on stone and metal with significant meaning and it is powered by lightingsubstance
it's all natural and rational but describing it poetically is cool and fine