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One of the things I like about programming is it feels like legit magic. You infuse a lightning stone with words of power that bend its mind to your will.
One must be cautious. The stone will do what is asked of it. Exactly what is asked of it. Ask carefully.
Computers and tech in general often feels like magic. The first computer I ever used was a ZX Spectrum, now I have something vastly more computationally powerful, and constantly connected to a worldwide communication network and knowledge repository in my pocket!
It's amazing any of it actually works, especially as we don't always seem to know how it works.
Wireless is magic and no technical jargon can convince me otherwise. How do you begin to troubleshoot magic?
First you must harness the powers of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Magic has rules too, you just need to know them.
At least good magic does 😆
With a wand.
Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Clark C Arthur
Sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from technology
-Phil Foglio
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Arthur C. Clarke, 1962, “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”
Do my bidding magical thinking sand!
We conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells
What is the original source?
This would be a great fantasy novel honestly.
Well, it's not quite fantasy, but the Laundry Files novels by Charles Stross merge the concept of "math/algorithms is magic" with lovecraftian horror and satire.
Teaching sand to think was a mistake
There's a series called Magic 2.0 that comes close. You might like it!
The closest series that I know is Magic 2.0
There is something similar in Daemon (or maybe in the sequel Freedom™) in which
extremely minor spoiler
they enchant an invisibility ring, and the ritual is a sequence of steps involving a physical object. In the end, the ring is "tracked" by the AI so that who wears it is automatically removed from surveillance videos
A version of this kind of is. Check out the Magebreakers series.
Did you mean, let me rewrite it from scratch? :p