Re: ShadowRun

In article <o5ydnc37OP3qxFranZ2dnUVZ8tHinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
s.r.clarkstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Simon Richard Clarkstone wrote:
> > <rant>Certainly much better than my most-disliked premise for fiction:

> > magic returning and technology stopping working.  It seems that the
laws 
> > of physics that make "technology" work are not the same ones that make

> > life work.  Because technology has some magic "non-natural" stuff in
it 
> > so it isn't supposed to exist, whereas life is "all natural".  About
the 
> > only real excuse is that something has carefully thought, and ensured 
> > that life continues to work while things that it considers
"technology" 
> > don't.
> > 
> > Now a story about robots taking over the world after all life dies off

> > due to tiny changes in a physical field making the crazy hacks that
life 
> > uses rather less effective (the machines, being more orderlyly
designed 
> > were less reliant on the precise physics).</rant>
> 
> Shortly after posting, I re-found this:
> 
> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/universal_fire.html
> 
> That is basically my position, though I consider such changes to be 
> "highly contrived" rather than "impossible".

Lolz.
"Reality is laced together a lot more tightly than humans might like to 
believe."
That, and history.  "Time is the glue that holds the universe together." 
It's 
kinda like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey.......stuff.

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