As seen online:
“In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
The visualization below aims to explore this concept, offering a general classification of ‘magical acts’ and a timeline of what could be the evolution of their technological counterparts (you can click on any technology or ‘magical family’ and visit Wikipedia to get an idea of the concept).”
Other two laws:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, they are almost certainly right; when they state something is impossible, they are very probably wrong.
2. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
— from "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." | CCCB LAB as of 19 September 2025