“Where is this coming from?” “Obviously, from the ship.” “But we’re not connected to the ship. How is it managing to turn on our computer and print this?” “We don’t know.” “Well, shouldn’t we know?” Beth said. “Not necessarily,” Ted said. “Shouldn’t we try to know?” “Not necessarily. You see, if the technology is advanced enough, it appears to the naïve observer to be magic. There’s no doubt about that. For example, you take a famous scientist from our past—Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, even Isaac Newton. Show him an ordinary Sony color-television set and he’d run screaming, claiming it was
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