{"id":8980,"date":"2024-10-05T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/yes-but-how-does-it-work\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:37:29","slug":"yes-but-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/yes-but-how-does-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, but how does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>I worked with Arthur C. Clarke at the very beginning of my career. He&#8217;s most famous for saying, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Magic isn&#8217;t such a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>And we certainly have plenty of advanced technology around. Advanced in the sense that we can&#8217;t be bothered to take the time to understand it.<\/p>\n<p>A friend showed me his electric water bottle. A tiny USB charged battery is in the lid. &#8220;It gets rid of the impurities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wondered&#8211;<em>where do the impurities go?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably a more powerful placebo if you simply accept that something magical is happening inside the bottle, but no, it doesn&#8217;t get rid of the impurities. There&#8217;s a chance that it creates a light that kills some microorganisms, and there&#8217;s an even better chance that in New York, there&#8217;s absolutely nothing to worry about, battery or no battery.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s more useful to say, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is worth understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If we understand it, we can use it well. We can improve it. We can share it with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>AI, rice cookers and vaccines are not magic. They&#8217;re understandable technologies we can learn about and improve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked with Arthur C. Clarke at the very beginning of my career. He&#8217;s most famous for saying, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}